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authorimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2005-01-05 21:27:01 +0000
committerimp <imp@FreeBSD.org>2005-01-05 21:27:01 +0000
commitc00855c99f0e764223ffb1c87af5da7c344645c9 (patch)
tree82879cde9772ac1607b7d109032fe9846232dda7
parent65d4d80800169bac83dae081a87e3d9e14719043 (diff)
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Clarify /*- convention.
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/style.916
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/style.9 b/share/man/man9/style.9
index d699481..a67f5dd 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/style.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/style.9
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 1995-2001 FreeBSD Inc.
+.\"-
+.\" Copyright (c) 1995-2005 The FreeBSD Project
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\"
.Dd December 7, 2001
.Dt STYLE 9
.Os
@@ -62,11 +62,21 @@ The copyright header should be a muli-line comment, with the first
line of the comment having a dash after the star like so:
.Bd -literal
/*-
- * Copyright 1942 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1984-2025 John Q. Public. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Long, boring license goes here, but redacted for brevity
*/
.Ed
+An automatic script collects license information from the tree for
+all comments that start in the first column with
+.Dq Li "/*-" .
+If you desire to flag
+.Xr indent 1
+to not reformat a comment that starts in the first column which is not a
+license or copyright notice, change the dash to a star for those
+comments.
+Coments starting in columns other than the first comment are never
+considered license statements.
.Pp
After any copyright header, there is a blank line, and the
.Va rcsid
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