Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up

[Alec Warner]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Daniel Robbins wrote:
>>
>> >>> The trustees, as a whole, have complete authority over the project,
>> >>> and have the ability and legal authority to remove Council members
>> >>> that they may feel are a threat to the long-term stability of
>> >>> the project.
>>
>> Council and trustees are independently elected bodies, so there is no
>> hierarchy between them. Especially, the only way to remove a council
>> member is by election (or by slacker mark). GLEP 39 is very clear
>> there.
>>
>
> GLEP 39 has absolutely no legal standing. It is a fantasy document
> compared to the actual authority of the trustees.
>
> > No, you are misrepresenting the actual authority of Trustees. They
>> > have actual, real authority over the project as opposed to imagined
>> > authority that you seem to appeal to.
>>
>> Good luck with exercising that authority over developers who are all
>> volunteers. :)
>>
>
> Sure, the Trustees have no authority over these volunteers -- as long as
> they are not operating under the Gentoo name, Gentoo infrastructure, Gentoo
> repos, not using the Gentoo logo, Gentoo domains, etc. They are totally
> free to leave the project which is run by the Trustees, and then the
> trustees have no authority over them. But as long as they are on a project
> called "Gentoo Linux", the trustees have the authority to remove assholes
> from the project if they so desire.
>

Cool, if you want the name, maybe we should just negotiate selling it back
to you so you can do whatever with it?

-A


>
> -Daniel
>