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Re: Overriding vs Amending vs Position statement



On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:54:15PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> On Sat May 02 00:52, Luk Claes wrote:
> > It would be a clear indication that the foundation document should get an 
> > update or that the postition statement should get dropped again.

> I think Manoj's point is that if voting some option X (a position
> statement in conflict with an FD) means that we have to vote to change
> the FD or drop X, then why wasn't X a vote to change the FD in the first
> place? Surely we don't need a vote just to then have another vote...

No one has the authority to declare, a priori, for the entire project, that
a given position statement is in conflict with a FD.

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