Hi John, John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> writes:
> Distinguo. I have not *pressured* the author to dual license; that is, I > have not exercised force or undue influence (of which I have none). According to <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pressure#Verb>, "pressure" means: "To encourage or heavily exert force or influence", and according to <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encourage#Verb>, "encourage" means (among other senses) "To spur on, strongly recommend." As an example use of the word "pressure", wiktionary offers this: Do not let anyone pressure you into buying something you do not want. For another source, according to <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pressure>: "If you put pressure on someone, you try to cause that person to do something by persuading or threatening them" Here, I used the word "pressure" in the sense of to "persuade" or to "spur on, strongly recommend." Therefore, I think I used the word correctly here. Thanks, Mark
