Copyright statement in the second top-level comment block

[drittelhacker]

What kind of feature is this?

• Support for slightly more flexible placement of copyright statements

Your MATLAB/Octave environment

• both MATLAB and Octave
• any release

MISS_HIT component affected Choose one or more of the below:

• Style checker
• Copyright updater

Describe the solution you'd like In our projects, we usually have something like:

function [outputArg1,outputArg2] = untitled(inputArg1,inputArg2)
%UNTITLED Summary of this function goes here
%   Detailed explanation goes here

%
% This file is part of the foo project 
% (http://my.url.to/project/foo).
% Copyright (c) 2022 foo developers and contributors.
% All rights reserved.
% License: BSD 2-Clause License (see COPYING)
%

outputArg1 = inputArg1;
outputArg2 = inputArg2;
end

This way, we do not print the license statement every time users check for the help, but still comply to the license-at-the-top rules in open source software. Removing the empty line between the two comments makes the copyright tool and style checker find the copyright statement already. It would be great if both would also support this style, with the extra blank line.

[florianschanda]

First, sorry in the month long delay.

Second, this sounds like something I could do fairly easily.

[drittelhacker]

Sounds great. Take your time. This would be really nice to have, but is also not urgent at all.

[florianschanda]

This is now implement and will be in the next release (which I will make today).

[drittelhacker]

Many thanks! I just tested the copyright detection of mh_style on one of our projects with almost 400 m-files, and it worked flawlessly. Nice work.