[phobos] License formatting

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Sun Jun 27 14:17:34 PDT 2010


I don't understand. What docs are you referring to?

Andrei

On 06/27/2010 03:28 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> We're following the format outlined in the boost docs.
>
> On Jun 27, 2010, at 9:51 AM, 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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