[copyleft-next] On emphasizing Sec. 10 & 11

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Tue Feb 19 14:33:30 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:36:11PM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote:
> Hi,

Welcome!
 
> I know this has been discussed several times and quite cosmetic, but still
> think that emphasizing Sections 10 & 11 by enclosing hash symbols "##" is
> (slightly, I admit) confusing.  I have to confess that I wondered for some time
> why those very important clauses are commented-out...maybe I'm too used to some
> scripting langages ;-)
> 
> The issue ticket [1] claims that it followed the MPL 2.0 convention, but they
> actually use asterisks instead[2].  Well, asterisks also remind me of old
> C-style comments, but I guess * is better than #...

FWIW, in the draft I have now changed the hashes to asterisks (still
with double symbols on each side).

 - RF



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