MERCHANTABILITY is misspelled on Octave startup

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Oct-2008, Jeremy Erickson wrote:

| Hi,
| 	A very simple bug that should take all of 30 seconds to fix: on startup, the 
| warranty disclaimer reads,
| "This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
| There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
| FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'."
| 
| However, according to the GPL and the dictionary, the correct spelling is 
| MERCHANTABILITY.  This should be corrected.
| 	This was tested on Octave 2.1.73, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has gone 
| unnoticed in later versions, and it would be very easy to check.

I fixed it.  It has probably been misspelled for more than a decade.
A quick google search shows that we are hardly the only ones to get it
wrong...

Thanks,

jwe