On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:53:00PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:25:58 +0100, David N Welton <davidw@dedasys.com> said: > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:59:15 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout > >> <kleptog@gmail.com> said: > >>> 1. debian-legal is wrong, the GFDL is compatable with the DFSG and > >>> thus should be included in main. > >> Looking over the arguments for and against it in -legal, I am > >> trying to ascertain if this stance has a leg to stand on. > > ... and ? > And what? If someone tries to bring through a GR stating that > MS office warez can be distributed in main since it meets the DFSG, > one might rule that as frivolous and a waste of time. I'm not convinced the constitution gives the secretary the power to make such a ruling. There are no provisions in the constitution for the Project Secretary to dismiss a GR -- *even* a GR stating that the Debian Project holds the value of pi to be 3 -- so long as the GR has the requisite number of seconds. In the present case, I understand that the proposed ballot option is ambiguous wrt whether it constitutes an implicit amendment to the foundation docs, and that in the absence of clarification (in the form of a re-worded proposal) on the part of the proposer, it is the project secretary's prerogative to specify a supermajority requirement. But I don't think that extends to dismissing a GR that you happen to believe is inconsistent with reality. FWIW, aside from not being covered as a constitutional power of the secretary, I think trying to stop a GR this way would be pretty darn futile. If half of the project wants to vote in favor of saying pi=3, we're pretty well screwed whether or not the vote actually happens. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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