* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060721 03:21]: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 5. Project Leader > 5.1. Powers > The Project Leader may: > - 10. Together with SPI, make decisions affecting property held in trust > - for purposes related to Debian. (See §9.) > > =========================================================================== > 5. Project Leader > 5.1. Powers > The Project Leader may: > + 10. In consultation with the developers, make decisions affecting > + property held in trust for purposes related to Debian. (See > + §9.). Such decisions are made by announcement on a > + publicly-readable electronic mailing list designated by the > + Project Leader's Delegate(s); any Developer may post there.
This is a different change. E.g. know the DPL/Delegates could do decisions without posting to a public mailing list, which wouldn't work after this change. Of course, important decisions should always happen in public, but I e.g. don't mind if Debian decides to pay a few euro to buy a new NIC card for a server. > +9. Assets held in trust for Debian > > + Debian has no legal presence in any country worldwide, and as such See Ian's comments on "presence" - and BTW it is not true that Debian is not a legal entity, but I don't mind too much. > + cannot maintain any money or other property. Therefore, property will ... property directly. ? > + have to be maintained by any of a number of organizations as detailed in > + §9.2 > + 9.2. Authority > > + 1. An organization holding assets for Debian has no authority > + regarding Debian's technical or nontechnical decisions, except > + that no decision by Debian with respect to any property held > + by the organization shall require it to act outside its legal > + authority. An exception is that Debian's constitution may > + occasionally use SPI as a decision body of last resort. > + 2. Debian claims no authority over an organization that holds > + assets for Debian other than that over the use of property > + held in trust for Debian. Debian Developers may be granted > + authority within such an organization, subject to the > + organizations decision and rules. Hm, there are perhaps organizations that give Debian more influence. I read this change as that this wouldn't be an issue (but we just don't enforce this). > + 9.3. Management of property for purposes related to Debian > > + Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any > + donations for the Debian Project must be made to any one of a set > + of organizations designated by the Project leader (or a delegate) > + to be authorized to handle such things in name of the Debian > + project. Such authorization, or its withdrawal, and annual reports > + of activities by such organizations on behalf of Debian must be > + published by announcement on a publicly-readable electronic > + mailing list designated by the Project Leader or their Delegate(s); > + any Developer may post there. That's a new thing which wasn't the case up to now, at least not for !spi. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
