From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 21:52:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C84F116A4CE; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:52:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (f170.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAEB43D4C; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:52:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j05Lqpx4040865; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:52:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Colin Percival From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:49:01 PST." <41DC60CD.8000802@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 22:52:51 +0100 Message-ID: <40864.1104961971@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Warner Losh cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: John Baldwin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:52:52 -0000 In message <41DC60CD.8000802@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, Colin Percival writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> ... the copyright should always be the >> first comment in the file. > >There are lots of files which have foreign ID tags as their first comments. > >Is there a good reason why we can't just say that the copyright statement >must be the first comment block which includes the string "opyright"? I'd have to change the beer-ware then :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.