Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/appendices migration5.xml
| From: | Kenneth Schwartz | Date: | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:38:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/appendices migration5.xml | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.doc |
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> On 15 April 2004 03:31, Kenneth Schwartz wrote:
>
> > - In PHP 5 the MySQL client libraries are not bundled,
> > because of licence
> > + In PHP 5 the MySQL client libraries are not bundled,
> > because of license
>
> Why change this? It will always be wrong for some subset of readers, since in British the noun
> is licence but in American it's license (and contrariwise for the verb -- can't speak for
> other flavours of English!). Unless there were a consensus to use one chosen form of English
> consistently (which there isn't, not least because many of the contributors are non-native
> speakers and write their own individual variant of the language!), I'd just leave such
> dichotomous spellings as made by the original contributor.
It was simply a patch sent to me. Throughout the PHP.net site the
spelling 'license' is used. I don't much care either way, feel free to
change it.
Kenneth
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mike
>
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