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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] firmware/WHENCE: Use consistent field name for licence information
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:51:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260363108.4532.254.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091209120215.2c120e58@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

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On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:02 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:16:17 +0000
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Keep the Americans happy by making it 'license' not 'licence'.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> 
> NAK
> 
> As a matter of style we don't randomly switch things between different
> English language versions. If it says "colour" it stays colour, if it
> says "color" likewise.

The file currently uses both spellings in different places.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-09 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-09  5:16 [PATCH 4/5] firmware/WHENCE: Use consistent field name for licence information Ben Hutchings
2009-12-09 12:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-12-09 12:51   ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-12-09 13:10     ` Alan Cox
2009-12-09 14:06       ` Ben Hutchings

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