NetBSD Problem Report #6189

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: "acknowledgement" instead of "acknowledgment" in copyrights
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>Number:         6189
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       "acknowledgement" instead of "acknowledgment" in copyrights
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 22 15:50:02 +0000 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Sep 22 22:54:47 +0000 1998
>Last-Modified:  Tue Sep 22 22:55:08 +0000 1998
>Originator:     Perry E. Metzger
>Release:        NetBSD-current
>Organization:
Perry Metzger		perry@piermont.com
--
>Environment:

System: NetBSD jekyll.piermont.com 1.3H NetBSD 1.3H (JEKYLL) #0: Wed Sep 9 17:56:03 EDT 1998 perry@jekyll.piermont.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JEKYLL i386


>Description:
Our copyrights frequently say "acknowledgement" instead of
"acknowledgment". This is embarassing.

We cannot change other people's copyrighted files, but any TNF
copyright files or contributor files can be fixed.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Examine a few of our copyright notices (and BSD copyrights in
general).
>Fix:
	change from "acknowledgement" to "acknowledgment" in
reasonable places. Add "acknowledgment" to /usr/dict/words to prevent
future embarassment.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: perry 
State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 22 15:54:47 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Because I'm an idiot 

From: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
To: perry@piermont.com, gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/6189: "acknowledgement" instead of "acknowledgment" in copyrights
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:55:53 -0400

 > Our copyrights frequently say "acknowledgement" instead of
 > "acknowledgment". This is embarassing.

 Last I checked, both are valid spellings.  I last checked just now in
 the only dictionary that I have at hand:
 	Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1973, p. 10

 -allen


From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou)
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/6189: "acknowledgement" instead of "acknowledgment" in copyrights
Date: 22 Sep 1998 15:56:00 -0700

 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
 > Our copyrights frequently say "acknowledgement" instead of
 > "acknowledgment". This is embarassing.
 > 
 > We cannot change other people's copyrighted files, but any TNF
 > copyright files or contributor files can be fixed.

 It may be embarrassing (note the spelling of _that_ 8-) to you, but
 it's listed as an acceptable variant in the various dictionaries that
 i've checked.


 cgd
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/6189: "acknowledgement" instead of "acknowledgment" in copyrights 
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 19:01:26 -0400

 Allen Briggs writes:
 > > Our copyrights frequently say "acknowledgement" instead of
 > > "acknowledgment". This is embarassing.
 > 
 > Last I checked, both are valid spellings.  I last checked just now in
 > the only dictionary that I have at hand:

 I know. I'm an idiot. I closed the PR after adding both spellings to web2.
>Unformatted:

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