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Subject: Re: bin/159752: [patch] chio - incorrect spelling in license
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Synopsis: [patch] chio - incorrect spelling in license

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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