cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 5 13:07:39 PST 2005
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 02:16 pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> imp 2005-01-05 19:16:01 UTC
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> share/man/man9 style.9
> Log:
> A large majority of the source files in the tree start their license
> and copyright statements in a comment that begins with /*-. Document
> this tradition. A strict adherence to this rule will help resellers
> that wish to publish all copyright notices, generated automatically
> from the tree. There are too many variant licenses to do it purely
> by more complicated pattern matching.
I thought the reason for the - is that it prevented indent(1) from trying to
reindent that comment block and thus there might be comment blocks with a
leading '/*-' that aren't copyrights.
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