obligated

The license is the license, they chose to use it, and they are now obligated to live by its terms.

The idea is that if you know your customer, for example age, occupation etc, than you can--and are obligated by law to--flag suspicious financial activity to authorities.

Nobody's claiming that a CEO is ethically obligated to adhere to a certain remuneration strategy or that employees with certain skills legally should be paid a certain wage...

Last but perhaps most importantly: What are you legally (contractually) obligated to at this point in the venture?

It's important that people be able to determine whether the patent is in use or held by an NPE that's obligated to license it to people who want to implement products.

Anytime someone goes to SF they are obligated to FedEx a standard tube filled with El Farolito carnitas super burritos back.

As soon as you provide the service which you've received the money for, you're obligated to decrement that liability and increment sales.

Just because one person can't possibly keep up with all that is happening in the world doesn't mean everyone should feel obligated to stop to allow them to catch up.

They're legally obligated to take down only content that is infringing their rights.

T-Mobile is obligated to honor the privacy of the caller in these circumstances.

I don't expect any company to be obligated to act as a charity or to offer its products for free.

If this is really your attitude, if you really expect that people should feel obligated to drink, then you have a drinking culture problem.

The problem is that if health-destroying "performance enhancers" start to be seen as "acceptable" in sports, most performers will feel obligated to take them if they want to continue their careers, even if they'd normally wouldn't want to do that.

They wanted to remind us that other companies can't advertise here, but also felt obligated to pretend that YC companies don't get any special treatment because they can't post job ads "as stories" either.