From 1d57e3bdd17bda597e532ef662c0e5a192b76f1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Mansi Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:41:18 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] update text about copyright headers --- src/conventions.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conventions.md b/src/conventions.md index d392ebd5..385658da 100644 --- a/src/conventions.md +++ b/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