On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:19 -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:29 +0200, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > > Why not simply allow trustees to veto a council decision ? This does > > not give trustees enough power to be a second council, but would > > permit them to stop something that they believe will damage Gentoo. > > This is very little red tape IMHO. > > I believe that the trustees do not necessarily have any jurisdiction > over the council. They are concerned with legal type matters that > affect the foundation, not with technical and political things within > Gentoo itself. I could be wrong about this, but that's how I read it.
Correct. Currently, the Council (or anyone, really) would have to do something to endanger our copyrights, trademarks, or our legal standing for the trustees to do anything. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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