[d4mi3n]

> Well, the problem is that it's not so absolute. Publishing something normally invites feedback and it's awkward to completely ignore it. Just like it's awkward when you report a bug and get silence.

I think in a perfect world every request would be polite and reasonable, making what you say here objectively correct. Since this is not the case, this sadly becomes a subjective opinion.

The fact of the matter is that when one deals with the general public in any form you get all forms of good and bad interactions.

There's also an inherent asymmetry between the effort it takes for a small number of project maintainers to respond to a large number of project consumers.

There's no clear-cut answer here, but I think it is reasonable to state that someone sending requests to a project should set their expectations to match whatever licensing or contractual agreements are present in the projects they interact with.