cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 02:16 pm, Warner Losh 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.

I thought the reason for the - is that it prevented indent(1) from trying to 
reindent that comment block and thus there might be comment blocks with a 
leading '/*-' that aren't copyrights.

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