Software developers do not have obligations aside from do the minimum dictated by your boss to not be terminated, so I suspect the concept of obligations is foreign to most software developers.

In most other professions there exists licensing and such licensing establishes rules of conduct. Violation of such results not just in termination of a job but failure to practice, usually forever. In those professions obligations are essentially laws, except violating such may not, but can, result in incarceration. Instead they will just be poor and forever unemployable in their invested trade.