Comment by Steve0
5 years ago
I've never heard of "implicit promises". For me a promise is by definition explicit. Anything else are assumptions, in this case false assumptions.
5 years ago
I've never heard of "implicit promises". For me a promise is by definition explicit. Anything else are assumptions, in this case false assumptions.
In many contexts, there’s often an implicit promise to be courteous to others, even if it’s not defined explicitly.
From my skim of the maintainer's comment, this happened because people didn't keep their end of the promise.
I, and most people reading this, likely never interacted with this person. From where I sit, this is what's colloquially referred to as a "dick move".
“Implicit promises” is going into my Orwellian dictionary. What a farce, do people really believe such a thing?
It’s strange that you’re unfamiliar with the term. It’s an important concept in legal contexts, and the same general concept applies in all sorts of situations where people make reasonable inferences about other people’s behavior. It’s even called out as a real thing that is then explicitly denied in many OSS licenses, because otherwise such implicit promises might have legal implications.