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My project is contributed under the GPL lisence. I want to add some copyright notices into all files. Would it be enough:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Developer Name 1, Developer Name 2
 * This file is part of %Project name% (page at https://page).
 * Project is contributed with GPL license. For more information, visit web page.
 */

Or I have to include some license text there?

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Max Frai
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because **it is about licensing or legal issues**, not programming or software development. [See here](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/274964/1402846) for details, and the [help/on-topic] for more. – Kevin Brown-Silva Jun 15 '15 at 23:16

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If you're going to distribute code under the GPL, then have a look at the GNU Hello program for examples of how to decorate your source code with appropriate comments.

Greg Hewgill
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The ordinary boilerplate for the GNU GPL reads as follows, and that is what you should use.

Copyright (C) [years] [name of copyright holder]

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 3 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.

(From the GPL FAQ)

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