Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:
> First of all, knowledge is not that of the actors, but of the "reasonable
> man". The .deb archive standard contents were decided on when Debian was
> still a FSF project, and they certainly haven't been modified to remove
> the license after the separation. Thus the decision to not have the GPL
> within the .deb archive was made with the participation of the FSF. If
> RMS didn't know, it was because he was not a "reasonable man", and not
> because he had no means of knowing.
Debian was not materially an FSF project; RMS payed Ian for a very
brief period of time. Nor in this case is it a "reasonable man"
standard, because it's not negligence that is going on, but estoppel.
It's actual knowledge, because the question is actual implied
permission. A copyright owner, to preserve all their rights, must
assiduously enforce copyright violations they are aware of; there is
no requirement that they enforce violations they do not know about.
Thomas
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