For at least third-party packages (though you might want something
trickier for core Racket)...
I'm not a lawyer, but I figured that, for most packages I author, I
probably don't *need* to include the full text of a well-known license
(e.g., LGPLv3). Instead, I give the copyright notice, state that the
license using the recognized full name of the license (and a URL), and
then some disclaimers.
I include this legal info in metadata in "info.rkt", and McFly makes it
appear automatically in the documentation (with, e.g., "LGPLv3" at the
top of the document, and the free-form legal blurb at the end of the
document). Example at: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-roomba/
I've started to also add a one-line copyright notice at the top of each
source file in the package, something like ";; Copyright Neil Van Dyke.
See file info.rkt." (I might have to move to a legal notice comment
block at the top of each file, but I'd really rather not. Notice blocks
don't seem to be a barrier to abuse anyway.)
Neil V.
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