A lot of code files starts with lengthy copyright notices, and no one seems to mind. I find comments at the top very easy to ignore if I work on that code regularly. Also, I don't think I've ever seen comments at the bottom of a file!
I wonder if Protobuf wasn't open-sourced by Google, that comment would've been replaced with a link to a design doc. Google docs weren't a thing in early 2000s when Protobuf was originally written though.
I wonder if Protobuf wasn't open-sourced by Google, that comment would've been replaced with a link to a design doc. Google docs weren't a thing in early 2000s when Protobuf was originally written though.