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A fact from Licence laundering appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that source code laundering occurs when code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2017/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Licence laundering.

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On 30 December 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to License laundering. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Requested move 30 December 2024

Latest comment: 1 year ago9 comments6 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 12:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Licence laundering → License launderingLicense laundering – This article uses American English, same as Commons page. Absolutiva (talk) 10:02, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Oppose: The article seems to have been created in British English, and should remain that way per WP:RETAIN. Looks like the proposer has been editing the article to remove the British English from it. Seems a bit WP:GAMING. YorkshireExpat (talk) 13:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oppose: I wrote the original article using Canadian English. I have reverted your spelling changes and re-tagged the article with {{Use Canadian English}}. Mind matrix 13:47, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Happy with that! Thanks @Mindmatrix. YorkshireExpat (talk) 13:50, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Wait, is that WP:ENGVAR you've looking for? Absolutiva (talk) 22:55, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Well, ENGVAR state that English Wikipedia prefers no national variety over others. RETAIN builds on that by saying When no English variety has been established and discussion does not resolve the issue, use the variety found in the first post-stub revision that introduced an identifiable variety, but here we have the original author (where the first revision was post-stub) saying they wrote it in Canadian English. I made a poor asumption thinking it was British English but was mostly going off the spelling of 'licence', which is spelled like that as a noun in BE and also apparently in CE. The giveaway is 'analyzed' lower down, which would be AE and not BE. Apparently this is one where CE is like AE. YorkshireExpat (talk) 09:07, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oppose per above—blindlynx 13:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oppose per above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Requested move 30 December 2024