[Dune] [#879] Licence information is not included in the individual source files

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FS#879 - Licence information is not included in the individual source files
User who did this - Jö Fahlke (joe)

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>From http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt:

| To do so, attach the following notices to the program.  It is safest to
| attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively state the
| exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright"
| line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
|
|     <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
|     Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>
|
|     This program 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 of the License, or (at your
|     option) any later version.
|
|     This program 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 this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

So I guess, we don't neccessarily need the full disclaimer in every file,
although that would be preferably to be extra-safe.  As I read it, all we need
is something like

  Copyright (C) <years>  <name of author>
  Copyright (C) <years>  <name of other author>

  For information on licensing and the absense of warrenty see <FILE>.

In principle FILE only needs to contain the text of the GPL, include pre- and
postamble.  But it is probably a good idea to disclaim warrenty again in a
prominent manner.

The big work here is probably gathering all the author information.

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