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

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Sun Aug 14 02:37:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Alex K. wrote:

>> Description:
> The spelling of acknowledgements could be changed to acknowledgments. Trivial and submitted to gain experienced making diffs.
>> How-To-Repeat:
>
>> Fix:
> --- chio.c      2010-06-02 05:34:41.000000000 -0400
> +++ chio.temp   2011-08-13 23:12:22.000000000 -0400
> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>  * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
> - *    must display the following acknowledgements:
> + *    must display the following acknowledgments:
>  *     This product includes software developed by Jason R. Thorpe
>  *     for And Communications, http://www.and.com/
>  * 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products

This is the standard Berkeley copyright with the standard Berkeley
mispelling.  It (or an upper case variant) is used in 6580 regular
files out of 17612 in /usr/src 4.4BSD-Lite2.  Do you really wish to
fix them all? (y or n) :-).  The correct spelling is used in 42 files
in Lite2 (one is the dictionary :-).  I think errors in copyrights can
only be fixed by the copyright holder, but this problem will go away
when clause 3 is removed (as permitted by Berkeley for most files not
including non-Berkeley ones like chio.c).

Bruce


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