On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The trustees, as a whole, have complete authority over
> the project, and have the ability and legal authority to remove Council
> members that they may feel are a threat to the long-term stability of the
> project.

Only on paper. If they actually tried to exercise this right it would
certainly lead to complete chaos. I suspect for the most part
everybody would just ignore them, and they'd be forced to try to
undertake legal measures to seize control of the Foundation assets
assuming they could even afford to do this. In the meantime most of
the distro would probably just carry on without them.

No, you are misrepresenting the actual authority of Trustees. They have actual, real authority over the project as opposed to imagined authority that you seem to appeal to.

In the worst case Gentoo would end up changing its name and hosting.
I suspect this would only happen after considerable expense by the
Foundation to boot everybody out, assuming this even succeeded.

So, in other words, if the Trustees actually tried to do their job, you would participate in a fork of the project and host it under another name. I actually think that would acceptable. Please go ahead and do so, there is nothing stopping you. But if you are continuing to participate in Gentoo, then you need to respect the authority of the Trustees, whether you like it or not. I will be supporting Gentoo, not your effort.

-Daniel