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| author | Mark Mansi <markm@cs.wisc.edu> | 2019-01-23 12:41:18 -0600 |
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| committer | Mark Mansi <markm@cs.wisc.edu> | 2019-01-23 12:41:18 -0600 |
| commit | 1f77162df7ec75dcd307f5f90062ae843ded1ca9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4cd86003f130879389a95d6faa1ec0033cb30b0d /src/doc/rustc-dev-guide | |
| parent | 5d9d8fd4bf6f1261a75dc2f18d1f1c8c6018e940 (diff) | |
| download | rust-1f77162df7ec75dcd307f5f90062ae843ded1ca9.tar.gz rust-1f77162df7ec75dcd307f5f90062ae843ded1ca9.zip | |
update text about copyright headers
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/conventions.md | 11 |
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diff --git a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/conventions.md b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/conventions.md index d392ebd5722..385658dac5c 100644 --- a/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/conventions.md +++ b/src/doc/rustc-dev-guide/src/conventions.md @@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ in isolation with `./x.py test src/tools/tidy`. ### Copyright notice -Some existing files begin with a copyright and license notice. Please omit this -notice for new files licensed under the standard terms (dual MIT/Apache-2.0). -For existing files, the year at the top is not meaningful: copyright -protections are in fact automatic from the moment of authorship. We do not -typically edit the years on existing files. +In the past, files begin with a copyright and license notice. Please **omit** +this notice for new files licensed under the standard terms (dual +MIT/Apache-2.0). + +All of the copyright notices should be gone by now, but if you come across one +in the rust-lang/rust repo, feel free to open a PR to remove it. ## Line length |