[m-dev.] For review: add bitmap.m to library

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Feb 6 02:57:57 AEDT 2001


On 05-Feb-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >From Fergus Henderson on 05/02/2001 14:15:21
> > On 05-Feb-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > % THIS MODULE IS HEREBY DONATED TO THE MERCURY PROJECT TO BE
> > > % RELEASED UNDER WHATEVER LICENCE IS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY
> > > % THE MERCURY PROJECT TEAM.
> > 
> > s/LICENCE IS/LICENSE(S) ARE/
> 
> I thought British and Australian English were identical (modulo accent)?
> If so, `licence' is correct; `license' is the verb.

Oh well, never mind.  It looked vaguely odd to me, and I just checked
the spelling from the GPL.  But the Macquarie dictionary agrees with you.

(The singular vs plural was the more important issue.)

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