[plug] [article] Open Code Market (OCM)

[Alex Polglaze]

>>No, the noun and verb are both "licence". The "license" variant is the same 
>>word with the American spelling and has no place in .au or .uk English.
> 
> 
The noun and the verb are separate words.

> Ooops, sorry. I thought it was like practice/practise because the
> Americans use license for both noun and verb plus I wasn't aware of
> a British use for license as a noun.

Wrong, licence is the noun, license is the verb. Reference Macquarie dict, 
recent edition, Oxford Dict dad's copy (read old ediition).

Using one spelling is just dumbing down for the Americans.

Alex

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