On 9/28/2011 7:44 AM, Rob Weir wrote: ...snip...
In particular, should be forcing the questions by proposing a categorization and seeking lazy consensus? For example, "If there are no objections within 3 days to treating the Boost Licence as Category A compatible, then we assume lazy consensus and go forward with that treatment"
For legal issues - unless there is some truly overriding urgency to the matter - I would definitely use a much longer period for any legally-related lazy consensus question.
Unlike code changes (which can be reversed) or releases (which can be replaced by a new one), some legal-related actions are not so easy to undo. Between that and the relative number of experienced legal volunteers (few) vs. technical ones (many), please use patience when dealing with legal questions.
- Shane
