standardizing copyright/license notice delimiters in MIT source files.

[Will Fiveash]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:13:56AM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 20:07 -0400, Will Fiveash wrote:
> > The issue I have is that it is difficult to programmatically extract
> > just the copyright and license text since there is non-copyright/license
> > text in the same copyright block.  This task could be done more reliably
> > if there were some form of unique start and stop delimiters around the
> > copyright/license text that could be fed to sed for exaction purposes.
> > Thoughts?
> 
> In theory at least, the top-level NOTICE file (or README in released
> versions of the code prior to the upcoming 1.9) should have all of the
> licenses collected.  We've attempted to keep it up to date as we've
> added code with different licenses.
> 
> I'm not saying that as an objection to your proposal, just as something
> that might save you time.

In that past that would have been good enough but I've been told we need
to list the source files along with their associated copyright/license,
hence my proposal.

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