update text about copyright headers

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Mark Mansi 2019-01-23 12:41:18 -06:00
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### Copyright notice ### Copyright notice
Some existing files begin with a copyright and license notice. Please omit this In the past, files begin with a copyright and license notice. Please **omit**
notice for new files licensed under the standard terms (dual MIT/Apache-2.0). this notice for new files licensed under the standard terms (dual
For existing files, the year at the top is not meaningful: copyright MIT/Apache-2.0).
protections are in fact automatic from the moment of authorship. We do not
typically edit the years on existing files. 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 ## Line length