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Clarify that Scope is defined at build time #2878

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Expand Up @@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ fully qualified class name).
The instrumentation scope is used to obtain a
[Tracer or Meter](#tracer-name--meter-name).

The instrumentation scope may have zero or more additional attributes that provide
additional information about the scope. For example for a scope that specifies an
instrumentation library an additional attribute may be recorded to denote the URL of the
repository URL the library's source code is stored. Since the scope is a build-time
concept the attributes of the scope cannot change at runtime.
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### Tracer Name / Meter Name

This refers to the `name` and (optional) `version` arguments specified when
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