GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 724438
Typo in the license comments almost everywhere in the code
Last modified: 2014-02-17 19:11:16 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.
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.
I agree -- 'licence' is the correct form for the noun in all but US English.
Thanks for reminding me some English lessons :)
I would agrue that everything else is US English, why do we write "color" not "colour" all over the place :)
:) 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).