[drupal-docs] standard for spelling in docs?

[Charlie Lowe]

The OSI people use capitalization as part of how they define their 
trademark and in all of their usage throughout the site. For instance,

http://opensource.org/trademarks/

Most people don't, though. So I would say yes if we were to write that 
Drupal uses an Open Source Certified license, but not otherwise. 'Course 
if we to capitalize "Open Source" all the time, we need to change every 
instance of "Linux" in drupal.org docs to "GNU/Linux" to make Stallman 
happy, too.

Meanwhile, is it "web site" or "website?"

Anisa wrote:
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> Charlie Lowe wrote:
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>>'Course, Drupal can be an "open-source" "content-management" system if 
>>you want it to be ;)
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> Hah!  You don't know what a pain it is to /find/ the hypen on my 
> Japanese keyboard...
> 
> So it's not capitalized either?
> 
> Anisa.
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>>Anisa wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>>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.)
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
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