[drupal-docs] standard for spelling in docs?

[Anisa]

With regards to open source...  I did a little digging about, and 
perhaps you could consider this explanation official:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html

A note about usage. In accordance with normal English practice, the term 
is "open source" standing alone, but "open-source" used as an adjective 
or in compounds; thus, "open-source software".

Personally, hyphens are tedious, and open source can just be written 
open source for all I care, but if you want a standard...

Anisa.

Dries Buytaert wrote:

>On 21 May 2005, at 17:03, Charlie Lowe wrote:
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>>email or e-mail
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>The Drupal code itself uses 'e-mail', not 'email'.
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>>I also noticed that "open source" was hyphenated in a couple of the ad
>>leaflet submissions when it was used as an adjective. Open source  
>>should
>>never be hyphenated in any instance I can think of, although I  
>>often see
>>people doing it this way.
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>(Drupal is Free Software.  Not all Open Source software is Free  
>Software.)
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>Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
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