On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:29:17AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > 1. Your proposal allows any nontechnical document defined by 4.1.5 > to be modified ...and withdrawn... > 2. Manoj's proposal allows nontechnical documents to be modified; ...and withdrawn... > a subset of these, known as foundation documents, require a 3:1 > majority to be modified; the others require no special majority. > In addition, the list of foundation documents requires a 3:1 > majority to modify. > > Is this a fair summary? Yes. As you can see they are not "opposite" in any sense. Both would permit non-technical documents to be explicitly modified and withdrawn. Manoj's further creates a class of non-technical documents that receive special treatment. I see no reason this can't be proposed and voted on separately, for the reasons I provided in my rationale statment. -- G. Branden Robinson | The basic test of freedom is perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | less in what we are free to do than in branden@debian.org | what we are free not to do. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Eric Hoffer
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