Bug 233

Summary:	could we please learn how to spell the word license
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Ian McNish <ian>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	OpenSSH Bugzilla mailing list <openssh-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ian McNish 2002-05-02 17:38:44 AEST

the license distributed with openssh is contained in a file named 'LICENCE'. 
the proper spelling of the word is 'LICENSE'. in the LICENCE file the word is 
spelled both correctly and incorrectly.

Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2002-05-02 19:44:16 AEST

dictionary.com lists "licence" as a variant of "license" according to The 
American Heritage Dictionary (go check, we'll wait). It's listed as chiefly 
British but both variants are commonly used in Australia (and, I suspect, 
Canada).

Inconsistent? Yes. Incorrect? No.

Comment 2 Ben Lindstrom 2002-05-02 23:25:22 AEST

Both are considered correct depending on where you live.  It is like whiningabout how one spells colour ('colour' vs 'color').I do feel that we should be consistant.  *ALWAYS* use one or the other spelling,but I have no feelings either way which one should be used.Lets face it.. English (in it's many forms from Bastardized American tothe Queen's English) is just a horriblely scattered language.=)

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2002-05-03 10:16:25 AEST

Licence is the correct spelling, as used in Britian, Australia and many other 
parts of the world.

We have no choice over the various spellings of "licence" in the file either - 
these are licences that we inherited from a number of developers. We do not have
the legal right to change these in any way.