1236294 - TB 45a2 - typo in notification "open source blah blah at the bottom"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco A.G.Pinto [:marcoagpinto]]

Guys,

I have done a clean install of TB 45a2.

At the bottom notification it mentions: "open source".

An hyphen is missing, so it should be: "open-source".

https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/open-source
https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/open-source

Comment 1

[:aceman]

We could fix the few occurences in TB:
/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/aboutRights.dtd (View Hg log or Hg annotations)
    line 8 -- ...llName; is free and open source software, built by ...
    line 65 -- ...ights granted under open source licenses applicable...

/mail/locales/en-US/chrome/messenger/aboutRights.properties (View Hg log or Hg annotations)
    line 8 -- notifyRightsText=%S is free and open source software from the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

However, notice that also mozilla central uses the form without hyphen a lot of times:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=open+source&find=&findi=&filter=^[^\0]*%24&hitlimit=&tree=comm-central

Yes, there are a few occurrences using "open-source".

Comment 2

[Kent James (:rkent)]

The dictionary entry proves that "open-source" is valid English, but it does not prove that "open source" is invalid. The first few hits of a Google search for "open-source software" (without the quotes) all use "open source" rather than "open-source" in prose. This is not important enough either way to warrant effort.