Re: The copyright assignment debate.

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Perhaps before we try to do a referendum it would be best to give the
board a chance to consider the issue.

Is there any way we could get an FSF lawyer to take a look at the
matter?  I think that would go a very long way toward helping everyone
understand the issues involved.

-Rob

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 10:01 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Alan Cox">
> 
> > In the meantime if 10% of the membership care to support a referendum they
> > can email me.
> 
> Alan, that's flat out inappropriate. There are clauses in the by-laws
> related to the membership raising votes.
> 
> If that's going to happen, it should happen on this list, not in the mailbox
> of someone who is not even a director of the organisation. If you want to
> push GNOME into the kind of democratic fish-head soup Debian's stuck in, you
> need to do it according to the guidelines of the organisation.
> 
> - Jeff
>