Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:57:09 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk Cc: imp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <20050105.145709.74659919.imp@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <41DC60CD.8000802@wadham.ox.ac.uk> References: <40695.1104961386@critter.freebsd.dk> <41DC60CD.8000802@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
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phk>A harder problem is to detect when the copyright ends. End of the comment (or first blank line for those languages that don't have block comments). Remember, my script grabs the entire license, not just the copyright notice. colin> Is there a good reason why we can't just say that the copyright colin> statement must be the first comment block which includes the colin> string "opyright"? Yes. There are many files that have multiple copyright blocks. There are files whose license statement says "this file is in the public domain" and there are some files that use an abbreviation of Copyright, as allowed by the copyright laws at one point. Warner
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