mcc @mcc@mastodon.social
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Okay. So do you know about the "doctrine of laches"?

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This is a concept in US and British law, and as I understand it says that if you know someone is doing a thing, and you have the ability to stop them, and you *don't* make an effort to stop them, then you lose the ability to get them in trouble for it later (sometimes, lose the ability to make them *stop* later). In other words if you have a gate, you're expected to put a latch on it, if you don't want people using it

mcc (@mcc@mastodon.social)

The big problem, as I see it, is that Mastodon is now opening the pandora's box of making the content licensing situation of the Fediverse explicit, which in a federated environment will be *very* hard to do without crushing someone's toes, somewhere. (Personally, I really *liked* that all this time the licensing situation of Mastodon has been implicit; I was happy just letting laches and deletion notices do all the work. But I understand if Mastodon gGmbH doesn't feel they can do that forever.)

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