Hi, Branden Robinson wrote: > - 5.2 The Foundation Documents are the works entitled "Debian > - Social Contract" and "Debian Free Software Guidelines". > + 5.2 The Foundation Document is the work entitled "Debian > + Social Contract".
I disagree. Rationale: The DFSG doesn't codify a majority opinion -- it
codifies a (rough) consensus. Therefore changing ... oops,
superseding ;-) ... it should also require some approximation of consensus. A
3:1 supermajority is IMHO an example of this approximation; a simple 1:1
majority isn't.
Unrelated nit: I don't like the analogy of DFSG to statutory law. Statutory
laws are frequently passed in a way almost, but not quite, entirely unlike
something that makes sense WRT solving the actual problem. :-/
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