Reflect license file renaming to accomodate more operating systems, and list discussions of exact copyright/license comments wording.

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</ul>
<ul>
<li>Begin all source files (including programs, headers, scripts, etc.) with:
<ul>
<li>A comment line describing the contents of the file.</li>
<br>
&nbsp;<ul>
<li>A comment line describing the contents of the file.<br>
&nbsp;</li>
<li>Comments describing copyright and licensing. The preferred form is:<br>
<br>
<code>// Copyright Jane Programmer, 2003.<br>
// See accompanying license for terms and conditions of use.</code><br>
<code>//&nbsp; Copyright Jane Programmer 2002. Use, modification and
distribution is<br>
//&nbsp; subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
accompanying<br>
//&nbsp; file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)<br>
</code>
<br>
See the <a href="license_info.html">license information page</a> for
details.
</li>
<li>A comment line referencing your library on the Boost web site:<br>
Please leave an empty line before and after the copyright and license
comments.<br>
<br>
<code>// See http://www.boost.org/libs/foo for documentation.</code><br>
See <a href="license_info.html">license information page</a> for
more information about the Boost Software License.<br>
&nbsp;</li>
<li>A comment line referencing your library on the Boost web site. For
example:<br>
<br>
<code>//&nbsp; See http://www.boost.org/libs/foo for library home page.</code><br>
<br>
where <code>foo</code> is the directory name (see below) for your library.
As well as aiding users who come across a Boost file detached from its
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<p> See accompanying <a href="../LICENSE">license</a> for terms and conditions
of use.</p>
<p>Revised
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<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->29 September, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39351" --></p>
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