From da52f590b5e9b5c1918342179b8f2220438458ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:27:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify /*- convention.

---
 share/man/man9/style.9 | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man9/style.9 b/share/man/man9/style.9
index d69948100d4..a67f5dd060f 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/style.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/style.9
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 1995-2001 FreeBSD Inc.
+.\"-
+.\" Copyright (c) 1995-2005 The FreeBSD Project
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -22,7 +23,6 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"
 .Dd December 7, 2001
 .Dt STYLE 9
 .Os
@@ -62,11 +62,21 @@ The copyright header should be a muli-line comment, with the first
 line of the comment having a dash after the star like so:
 .Bd -literal
 /*-
- * Copyright 1942 M. Warner Losh.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1984-2025 John Q. Public.  All Rights Reserved.
  *
  * Long, boring license goes here, but redacted for brevity
  */
 .Ed
+An automatic script collects license information from the tree for
+all comments that start in the first column with
+.Dq Li "/*-" .
+If you desire to flag
+.Xr indent 1 
+to not reformat a comment that starts in the first column which is not a
+license or copyright notice, change the dash to a star for those
+comments.
+Coments starting in columns other than the first comment are never
+considered license statements.
 .Pp
 After any copyright header, there is a blank line, and the
 .Va rcsid