On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Actually I just looked through my command history and found the
> exact command I used:
> 
> grep -ir "licence" * > ../license-grep-2.4
> 
> Talk about not being able to decide how to spell something!  
> Heheh.  I normally spell it "license", however I don't know what
> got into my mind to spell it two ways.

'Licence' is a British noun. 'License' is a British verb. I believe
Americans use the latter for both contexts, and the GPL was 
written in America, making 'license' 'correct'. 

'Practi[cs]e' is similar.

-- 
dwmw2


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