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Is it software licence or software license? - Australian spelling
This is one spelling I started to assimilate into my language without realising it was happening,
until one day I thought, "what is the correct spelling?".
I work with computers so nearly every piece of software I pick up has "software license".
Every time I attend a Microsoft seminar the spelling used is "software license".
I started to believe this was the correct spelling.
The spelling in Australia is "software licence".
We use "licence" as the noun and "license" as the verb.
Software is a product and thus a noun and so the spelling should be "software licence".
We license the use of software from Microsoft.
I purchased the licence for the software.
I licensed the software licence from Microsoft.
The trick I once read with the word licence is to think of ice. Ice is a product.
If it is a product then the spelling contains "c".
Americans only use the spelling license for both the noun and verb, which is why there is confusion for us
when we see the American spelling.
Out of interest I asked the Microsoft presenter once, "why did they use the spelling software license"?
Their answer was, "they didn't create the slides in the presentation, that was done in America".
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