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Bug 724438 - Typo in the license comments almost everywhere in the code
Typo in the license comments almost everywhere in the code
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: docs
unspecified
Other All
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-02-15 20:58 UTC by Olivier Delhomme (IRC : dup)
Modified: 2014-02-17 19:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Changes the word "licence" to the word "license" (77.01 KB, patch)
2014-02-15 20:58 UTC, Olivier Delhomme (IRC : dup)
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Description Olivier Delhomme (IRC : dup) 2014-02-15 20:58:11 UTC
Created attachment 269230 [details] [review]
Changes the word "licence" to the word "license"

The license comments contains the word "licence", a french word, instead of the english one : license

The proposed patch corrects this.
Comment 1 Yeti 2014-02-15 21:27:05 UTC
Licence is an English word.  British English differentiates between the verb (s) and noun (c), similarly as in the case of many other words: practice/practise, advice/advise, etc.  Only US English can't because the verb and noun are spelt the same.
Comment 2 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2014-02-15 21:40:15 UTC
I agree -- 'licence' is the correct form for the noun in all but US English.
Comment 3 Olivier Delhomme (IRC : dup) 2014-02-15 21:45:26 UTC
Thanks for reminding me some English lessons :)
Comment 4 Michael Natterer 2014-02-16 16:40:56 UTC
I would agrue that everything else is US English, why do we write "color"
not "colour" all over the place :)
Comment 5 Olivier Delhomme (IRC : dup) 2014-02-17 19:11:16 UTC
:)

I was curious to see the usage of both words in the code :

grep -rli colour * 
glib/docs.c

$ grep -rli color * 
ChangeLog.pre-2-10
ChangeLog.pre-2-14
docs/reference/glib/Sorted_binary_tree_inorder.svg
docs/reference/glib/mainloop-states.eps
docs/reference/glib/Sorted_binary_tree_preorder.svg
docs/reference/glib/Sorted_binary_tree_postorder.svg
gio/gregistrysettingsbackend.c
gio/gdesktopappinfo.c
glib/gslice.c
glib/gslice.h
glib/docs.c
glib/gtester-report
gobject/tests/enums.c
NEWS
po/ChangeLog
tap-driver.sh
tests/slice-color.c
tests/Makefile.am
tests/.gitignore
tests/makefile.msc.in

'color' that matches in svg and ps files are from the structure of the file itself (eg pagecolor, bordercolor, setrgbcolor and such).