"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Any thoughts that Debian should not have to provide an exact number of > authoritative contacts with published information of who those contacts > should be immediately laughed out of the building. [...]
Any suggestion that SPI should tell the Debian project who may make decisions about its resources should fail the laugh test! Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Hence, in order for SPI to protect itself, it is best from SPI's point > of view to have a very strictly defined interface with which it > interacts with its sub-projects, much like a bank has a strictly > defined interface with its customers --- and for the same reasons. Yes, SPI should name contacts like a bank does, but must also - like a bank does - recognise that the authority of those contacts only extends so far and so long as the "account holder" permits it. > The legal exposure, not to mention the exposure to vast debian mailing > list flame wars to SPI board members who are not otherwise obligated > to be on various Debian mailing list, would be enormous. If there are legal implications of stating a mechanism for making SPI aware of project decisions, then I hope that a/ SPI will take legal advice from their usual expert(s); and b/ it could be solved by simply omitting clause 8. Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > However, the text didn't really go far enough with that - what if the SPI > board is duly informed about something like that, but it still decides to go > through with transactions because it doesn't think they're a problem? I expect someone (donor, other project decision-maker) could complain and win legally, with all sorts of bad consequences for all SPI projects. > Anyway, do other associated projects implement any similar safeguards? I don't think other projects are sitting on as much money as debian and have such a potential for a wide range of views among decision-makers, so it's probably not as grave. Again, please keep clause 5 of 2007-02-28.iwj.1 and not change the debian funds into DPL funds, and I'm amazed that this is contraversial. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
