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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by pfortuny on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:47AM (#33313312)
Yep. The “this software is distributed as is, with no guarantees…” is essential in any kind of freelance open source development. That sentence does not appear in the BSD licenses and I deem that a mistake.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by sarnowski on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:12AM (#33313779)
Every BSD license has this, which is for that purpose:

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED „AS IS“ AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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