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From: "Alex K." <c79@foxbsd.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: [patch] chio - incorrect spelling in license
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>Number:         159752
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [patch] chio - incorrect spelling in license
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 13 23:30:13 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    Sun Aug 14 10:57:24 UTC 2011
>Last-Modified:  Sun Aug 14 10:57:24 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Alex K.
>Release:        8.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD system.foxbsd.org 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011     root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
The spelling of acknowledgements could be changed to acknowledgments. Trivial and submitted to gain experienced making diffs.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
--- chio.c      2010-06-02 05:34:41.000000000 -0400
+++ chio.temp   2011-08-13 23:12:22.000000000 -0400
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
- *    must display the following acknowledgements:
+ *    must display the following acknowledgments:
  *     This product includes software developed by Jason R. Thorpe
  *     for And Communications, http://www.and.com/
  * 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Alex K." <c79@foxbsd.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/159752: [patch] chio - incorrect spelling in license
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:37:25 +1000 (EST)

 On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Alex K. wrote:
 
 >> Description:
 > The spelling of acknowledgements could be changed to acknowledgments. Trivial and submitted to gain experienced making diffs.
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >
 >> Fix:
 > --- chio.c      2010-06-02 05:34:41.000000000 -0400
 > +++ chio.temp   2011-08-13 23:12:22.000000000 -0400
 > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 >  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 >  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 >  * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
 > - *    must display the following acknowledgements:
 > + *    must display the following acknowledgments:
 >  *     This product includes software developed by Jason R. Thorpe
 >  *     for And Communications, http://www.and.com/
 >  * 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
 
 This is the standard Berkeley copyright with the standard Berkeley
 mispelling.  It (or an upper case variant) is used in 6580 regular
 files out of 17612 in /usr/src 4.4BSD-Lite2.  Do you really wish to
 fix them all? (y or n) :-).  The correct spelling is used in 42 files
 in Lite2 (one is the dictionary :-).  I think errors in copyrights can
 only be fixed by the copyright holder, but this problem will go away
 when clause 3 is removed (as permitted by Berkeley for most files not
 including non-Berkeley ones like chio.c).
 
 Bruce
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: arundel 
State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 14 10:43:06 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
thanks a lot for your patch. 

however apart from bruce evan's comments, 'acknowledgements' is not spelled 
incorrectly. there are a huge number of cases in the src, where either british 
or american english is preferred. 
there's no reason to switching to a unified spelling in those cases. freebsd is 
an international project and so there's no reason to try to switch to either 
british or american spelling. forcing somebody to spell a certain word 
differently from what he is used to, isn't going to make people happy. 

of course *real* spelling mistakes (with a few exceptions) should be fixed. 
however this PR doesn't fall under that category. 

exceptions are e.g. cases, where spelling a certain word incorrectly is historic 
practise in computer science or the world of unix. another example are incorrect 
abbreviations, which are used to deal with tty space related matters. there are 
probably more cases present, where incorrect spelling is considered OK. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159752 
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