Just because I put a brick through your window with template EULA language stating you accept and hereby authorize me to have hurled the brick through your window and that you, the recipient, now indemnify me, the thrower from any damages caused in the process of the message on said brick making it's way to you for recipient, does not mean you can go around chucking bricks through folks' windows. Despite what the tech sector really, really, REALLY hopes people never become irritated enough to actually bother to read up and hold them accountable to.

Meeting of the minds, people. It means something damnit. Just because a bunch of you shoved some boilerplate in the repo doesn't make it binding, and the fact you did, like it or not, alienates a bunch of people who would otherwise be more than happy to extend a helping hand if the extent of the relationship was only the proposed contribution.

t. someone very selective and wary of contractual language when they can afford to be