BIND covered under which license and does it conatin any cryptographic content ?
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Mon Jul 23 03:06:23 UTC 2007
Roland Dirlewanger wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
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>> And why do some people write licence with a c and some with a s?
>>
> I'm far from being an expert in Engish's etimology, but with a little
> help of a dictionary, It seems that the English word "licence" comes
> from the word "licence" which appeared in the French language in the
> XIIth century.
>
> When it crossed the Channel, the noun "licence" was kept unchanged, but
> strangely enough, the verb made out of it became "to license". Some time
> later, when both words crossed the Atlantic, some kind of simplification
> was made and both noun and verb became spelled the same way.
>
> Thus "the licence" is UK English, "the license" is US English.
>
> Roland.
For extra credit, guess what an off-licence is in the UK.
Danny
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