Peter Memishian writes:
> 
>  > It's an accident of history.  The correct style is in $SRC/prototypes/.
> 
> Who determined that was correct?

It's a legal thing.  See CR 6289464 and/or jbeck.

>  It seems like a waste of space to me.

Maybe.  There are times when legal is wrong and the cost is so high
that we have no choice but to fight.  Then there are times when legal
is wrong but the cost is small so there's no reason to bother.

In this case, we're talking about an additional 5 bytes (2F 0A 0A 2F
2A) per file, which theoretically makes a 1GB gate with 51348 files in
it a mere 256KB bigger.  It's not worth bothering about.

If we're going to complain about obtuse legal requirements, it's far,
far more offensive to me personally that we lard every file with the
full CDDL text.  I think that's completely unnecessary, and could have
been done with a single-line reference to the license instead.  But I
lost that battle long ago.

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