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      Simplify CMake per-source license notices · 86578ecc
      Brad King authored
      Per-source copyright/license notice headers that spell out copyright holder
      names and years are hard to maintain and often out-of-date or plain wrong.
      Precise contributor information is already maintained automatically by the
      version control tool.  Ultimately it is the receiver of a file who is
      responsible for determining its licensing status, and per-source notices are
      merely a convenience.  Therefore it is simpler and more accurate for
      each source to have a generic notice of the license name and references to
      more detailed information on copyright holders and full license terms.
      
      Our `Copyright.txt` file now contains a list of Contributors whose names
      appeared source-level copyright notices.  It also references version control
      history for more precise information.  Therefore we no longer need to spell
      out the list of Contributors in each source file notice.
      
      Replace CMake per-source copyright/license notice headers with a short
      description of the license and links to `Copyright.txt` and online information
      available from "https://cmake.org/licensing".  The online URL also handles
      cases of modules being copied out of our source into other projects, so we
      can drop our notices about replacing links with full license text.
      
      Run the `Utilities/Scripts/filter-notices.bash` script to perform the majority
      of the replacements mechanically.  Manually fix up shebang lines and trailing
      newlines in a few files.  Manually update the notices in a few files that the
      script does not handle.
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