diff --git a/share/man/man9/style.9 b/share/man/man9/style.9 index a67f5dd060f0..8ea25b64b1a8 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/style.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/style.9 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ is silent on an issue. */ .Ed .Pp -The copyright header should be a muli-line comment, with the first +The copyright header should be a multi-line comment, with the first line of the comment having a dash after the star like so: .Bd -literal /*- @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ line of the comment having a dash after the star like so: * Long, boring license goes here, but redacted for brevity */ .Ed +.Pp An automatic script collects license information from the tree for all comments that start in the first column with .Dq Li "/*-" . @@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ If you desire to flag 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 +Comments 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