I've not removed the Er macro from one of the lists in example.9, however,
because it seems to be doing some special kind of magic. Let's leave it
there for now.
The original Berkeley Software Distributions were made in the 1980's
and 1990's. At that time, the Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was in
force in most of the countries in the Americas. It required an
affirmative statement of rights reservation, typically using 'All
Rights Reserved.' The Regents included this phrase in their copyright
notices to invoke this treaty to ensure maximal copyright protection.
In the 1990's, Latin America coutries ratifeid the Berne Convention on
copyrights which prohibited them from requiring an affirmative
statement to reserve the rights. When Nicaragua ratified in 2000, the
Buenos Ares Convention of 1910 was effectively repealed. This made all
the 'All Rights Reserved' phrases obsolete and legal deadweight most
of the time, and certainly in the cases removed here.
Since it's no longer required, and is in fact meaningless, core has
decided to dropped it from the project's collection copyright and
sample templates. It encourages other rights holders to do the same
after consultation with their legal department.
More see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Convention for
more information.
Approved by: core@ (emaste@, jhb@)
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15264
should not use a `%' in examples.
I don't know if this is the consensus of doc@, or just a unilateral decision
of committer that corrected my following of this example. Maybe a docs
person could review these files and see if they still show current guidelines.
to have the $FreeBSD$ keyword, as this is now enforced
by the CVSROOT/commit_prep.pl script.
Fold multi-word macro arguments into a single argument
by putting the surrounding double quotes - this speeds
up the -mdoc processing drastically (of course if used
systematically).
Use the new features of -mdoc: exact -width specifiers,
.In macro as an ``.Fd #include'' replacement.
Add all of the possible errno's to example.3.
Show examples of the .Bx (BSD) and .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
in the various HISTORY sections.
Add some .Rs/.Re (used for referencing things other
than man pages) in the SEE ALSO sections.
Suggested by: wollman
since it seemed like a better place, and the makefiles for
/usr/share/examples didn't need to be fussed with.
The old stuff can be removed from the Attic.
