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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-22 21:19:50


At 03:26 AM 2/20/2004, David B. Held wrote:
>"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>news:4.3.2.7.2.20040219145425.031c90a0_at_mailhost.esva.net...
>> At 01:54 PM 2/19/2004, David Abrahams wrote:
>> >"Paul A Bristow" <boost_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >
>> >> A tiny typographic nitpick - Would it lie on the page more neatly
as:
>> >>
>> >> // Copyright I M Booster 2002-2004.
>> >> // 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)
>> >
>> >Maybe. I was not trying to suggest, nor do I think I'd want to
>> >mandate, any particular use of line breaks in the comment.
>>
>> I second that. While Paul's choice of line breaks was a bit prettier,
>> that's the sort of thing we traditionally leave up to the developer.
>
>How about the copyright line? Should that always appear with the
>license notice?

I'm having trouble envisioning a case where they shouldn't appear together.
Do you have a specific situation in mind?

--Beman


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