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Remove the copyright comment from the outputs generated by RetDec #843

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  1. Remove the copyright comment from the outputs generated by RetDec.

    It is a historical artifact from the times there was a decompilation service on
    https://retdec.com. Now that RetDec is open-source, it makes little sense to
    have the comment there. Even the usefulness of its presence in the past is
    debatable.
    
    Here is a quote from GPL FAQ [1], which I believe (but IANAL) applies to other
    licenses as well:
    
    > Q: Is there some way that I can GPL the output people get from use of my
    > program? For example, if my program is used to develop hardware designs, can I
    > require that these designs must be free?
    >
    > A: In general this is legally impossible; copyright law does not give you any
    > say in the use of the output people make from their data using your program. If
    > the user uses your program to enter or convert her own data, the copyright on
    > the output belongs to her, not you. More generally, when a program translates
    > its input into some other form, the copyright status of the output inherits
    > that of the input it was generated from.
    
    [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput
    s3rvac committed Aug 21, 2020
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