[foundation-board] CKAN licence?

[Ben Laurie]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Jordan S Hatcher
<jordan at opencontentlawyer.com> wrote:
>
> On 30 Aug 2011, at 17:02, Ben Laurie wrote:
>> One thing we should do that the ASF didn't from the start is to have
>> some mechanism for moving members to some type of emeritus status: the
>> ASF got dangerously close to being unable to elect new members because
>> of failure to achieve quorum - a simple formula is that anyone who
>> doesn't vote for n member elections in a row is automatically moved to
>> emeritus.
>
> In company law terms I'm not sure how this would work. Members have the right to vote, so either they are no longer members or we look and see if there are any options for creating a non-voting class of membership. Either that or we look at ways for people to give proxy votes by default to the board (or somesuch).

"members" doesn't have to be members of the company, if that makes
life easier. Giving proxy votes for non-active people doesn't seem
like a good idea, unless the board promises to vote them in proportion
to the non-proxy votes.