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Refactor the copyright checker

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Since Jul 4, 2024.

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The copyright checker script relies on many very specific templates to check against which is a maintenance problem. We've been discussing that it would be better to check for the fundamentals of what a copyright statement should say (e.g. "copyright" and "all rights reserved" etc) in order to determine that a statement of some sort is present without worrying about the details.

We can then trust reviewers to look at the full wording when a file is new or the statement is changed.

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