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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:19:12 -0800
From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:16:01 +0000 (UTC)
Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> 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.
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.112     +10 -0     src/share/man/man9/style.9

Do you have an analogous convention in mind for non-C sources?
#- for shell scripts and Makefiles, I imagine?

-Chris