[phobos] License formatting

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

Wouldn't it be better to use the DDoc "Copyright" section?

/**
  * ...
  * License:   $(WEB boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt, Boost License 1.0).
  * Authors:   XYZ
  * Copyright: Digital Mars 2005-.
  */

-Lars


On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 11:51 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I'm seeing this at the beginning of Phobos files:
> 
> /**
>   * ...
>   * License:   <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">Boost 
> License 1.0</a>.
>   * Authors:   XYZ
>   *
>   *          Copyright Digital Mars 2005 - 2009.
>   * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
>   *    (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
>   *          http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
> */
> 
> I don't think we need two mentions of the license, and oftentimes the 
> text appears poorly formatted in the actual doc. I'm thinking of:
> 
> /**
>   * ...
>   * License: $(WEB boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt, Boost License 1.0).
>   * Authors:   XYZ
>   *
>   *          Copyright Digital Mars 2005-.
>   */
> 
> I'm using the WEB macro to allow non-html doc generation later on, and 
> also am eliminating the closing year from the copyright.
> 
> Walter - does this work? I'm preemptively doing this formatting on all 
> files I touch.
> 
> 
> Andrei
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