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Questions about the implementation of software licenses on software. General questions about open source software licenses should be asked at opensource.stackexchange.com instead. Legal questions about software licenses should be asked at law.stackexchange.com instead.

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Should I add the license in every header and source file?

It is not necessary (depending on the exact license though) but a good practice for both commercial and open source software. Moreover, with the emergence of a proper standard called SPDX (Software Pa …
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