As comments in your code you should do the following to tag a group of files as licensed under GNU Version 2 License: 1) Add the file GNULICENSE.TXT in your source directory (downloadable where you found this document) 2) For each source file, attach the following as a comment (replacing the stuff within < ...> ) Copyright (C) -- 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, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA More general information can be found here: [ general information at http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/info/GPLv2.html ]