> 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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