Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR
On Fri, Dec 19 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> However, you can also override *individual decisions*, and that requires
> only a simple majority. So it would be possible, under the constitution,
> to get NVidia drivers into main with a set of 1:1 delegate overrides: you
> override the ftp-master's decision that it's non-free, and then you
> override the release team's decision that it's non-free, and so forth.
> Those overrides aren't binding on any future developer decisions, only on
> those specific ones.
So your position is essentially that the foundation documents
are not really binding on any developer, and even in cases where the
developer thinks they are binding, a simple majoiry can effectively
vacate that.
Does not sound like much of a contract to me, and I must reject
this interpretation.
manoj
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