Can licenses and disclaimers be summarized?
<p>Software licenses try to avoid ambiguity, which results in them being rather lengthy and hard to read.  Would I be okay with flippantly summarizing the gist or spirit of a license in another place (like a code file)?  I don't want the summery to be binding in any way.</p>

<p>Something like this for instance, which refers to the actual license text at the very end?</p>

<pre><code>//    legal:
// This code is free to use for any purpose.
// I don't promise this code will do anything right or nothing wrong, 
// and is given "as is", see license.txt
</code></pre>

<p>Those are just comments in the code, the license is still the license. Comments in code do not effect that.</p>

software licensing disclaimers