On 2/8/06, Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:50:51AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > If the GR is adopted by Debian, there is no significant difference > > between "contradicts the foundation documents" and "modifies > > the foundation documents". > > First of all, you're assuming that it does contradict the foundation > documents. It clearly asserts otherwise, and one might assume that > developers voting for it would agree with that. If it won a majority, > it would therefore seem to be the case that the majority of developers > agreed with it. In which case those asserting that it needed > supermajority wouldn't have a leg to stand on. So we'd be in a right > mess.
That would be a moot point, not a contradiction. > Second, you're completely wrong. Of course there is a difference > between modifying the foundation documents and appearing to contradict > them. One modifies them and the other, well, doesn't. This can only be true where appearances are deceiving. -- Raul
