GNU GPL Comment Headers Formatted in Various Languages

A convenient reference for adding a GPL license to a work.

All prepared texts are hard wrapped at 80 characters unless stated otherwise.

No Wrap

<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 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/>.

No Comment Delimiter

<!--
<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 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/>.
-->

One-Character Comment Delimiter

# <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 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/>.

% <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 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/>.

' <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 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/>.

; <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 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/>.

Two-Character Comment Delimeter

// <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 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/>.

/*
 * <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 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/>.
 */

-- <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 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/>.