[phobos] License formatting

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Sun Jun 27 18:11:06 PDT 2010


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On Jun 27, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:

> 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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