... and license notices

• The GPL says:
  

  
  You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
  

  (GPL § 1, emphasis added)
  
• Keep this more-or-less as-is:

    /*
    This file is part of GNU CC.
   
   GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
    Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
    later version.
   
   GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
    for more details.
   
   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
    Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place -- Suite 330, Boston, MA 02139, USA.  
    */
    

  
  
• You don't have to insert the complete text of the GPL into every file
  
  • Really
    

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