diff --git a/include/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.h b/include/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.h
index 7859281e11..2e8655a7c2 100644
--- a/include/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.h
+++ b/include/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.h
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
  * Rasperry Pi 2 emulation and refactoring Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_PERIPHERALS_H
diff --git a/include/hw/arm/bcm2836.h b/include/hw/arm/bcm2836.h
index 92a6544816..024af8aae4 100644
--- a/include/hw/arm/bcm2836.h
+++ b/include/hw/arm/bcm2836.h
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
  * Rasperry Pi 2 emulation and refactoring Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2836_H
diff --git a/include/hw/char/bcm2835_aux.h b/include/hw/char/bcm2835_aux.h
index cdbf7e3e37..934acf9c81 100644
--- a/include/hw/char/bcm2835_aux.h
+++ b/include/hw/char/bcm2835_aux.h
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
  * Rasperry Pi 2 emulation and refactoring Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_AUX_H
diff --git a/include/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.h b/include/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.h
index 228988ba05..2246be74d8 100644
--- a/include/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.h
+++ b/include/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.h
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
  * Rasperry Pi 2 emulation and refactoring Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_FB_H
diff --git a/include/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.h b/include/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.h
index 91ed8d05d1..a6747842b7 100644
--- a/include/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.h
+++ b/include/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_DMA_H
diff --git a/include/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.h b/include/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.h
index fb75fa0064..392ded1cb3 100644
--- a/include/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.h
+++ b/include/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_IC_H
diff --git a/include/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.h b/include/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.h
index de061b8929..2c22405686 100644
--- a/include/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.h
+++ b/include/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.h
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
  * ARM Local Timer IRQ Copyright (c) 2019. Zoltán Baldaszti
  * Added basic IRQ_TIMER interrupt support
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2836_CONTROL_H
diff --git a/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.h b/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.h
index 7e8f3ce86d..57f95cc35e 100644
--- a/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.h
+++ b/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_MBOX_H
diff --git a/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox_defs.h b/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox_defs.h
index a18e520b22..9670bf33a0 100644
--- a/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox_defs.h
+++ b/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox_defs.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_MBOX_DEFS_H
diff --git a/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.h b/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.h
index 11be0dbeac..b321f22499 100644
--- a/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.h
+++ b/include/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #ifndef BCM2835_PROPERTY_H
diff --git a/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c b/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c
index 17207ae07e..edcaa4916d 100644
--- a/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c
+++ b/hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
  * Rasperry Pi 2 emulation and refactoring Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/arm/bcm2836.c b/hw/arm/bcm2836.c
index 38e2941bab..43022b83f5 100644
--- a/hw/arm/bcm2836.c
+++ b/hw/arm/bcm2836.c
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
  * Rasperry Pi 2 emulation and refactoring Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/arm/raspi.c b/hw/arm/raspi.c
index acd2bb794d..fe3b9bc78b 100644
--- a/hw/arm/raspi.c
+++ b/hw/arm/raspi.c
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
  * Raspberry Pi 3 emulation Copyright (c) 2018 Zoltán Baldaszti
  * Upstream code cleanup (c) 2018 Pekka Enberg
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.c b/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.c
index d6bf3374a6..c6263808a2 100644
--- a/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.c
+++ b/hw/display/bcm2835_fb.c
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
  * Refactoring for Pi2 Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft. Written by Andrew Baumann.
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
  *
  * Heavily based on milkymist-vgafb.c, copyright terms below:
  *  QEMU model of the Milkymist VGA framebuffer.
diff --git a/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.c b/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.c
index ccff5ed55b..4cd9dab745 100644
--- a/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.c
+++ b/hw/dma/bcm2835_dma.c
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.c b/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.c
index 05bd28e4f9..53ab8f5881 100644
--- a/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.c
+++ b/hw/intc/bcm2835_ic.c
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
  * Refactoring for Pi2 Copyright (c) 2015, Microsoft. Written by Andrew Baumann.
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
  * Heavily based on pl190.c, copyright terms below:
  *
  * Arm PrimeCell PL190 Vector Interrupt Controller
@@ -9,7 +8,8 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery.
  * Written by Paul Brook
  *
- * This code is licensed under the GPL.
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.c b/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.c
index 61f884ff9e..53dba0080c 100644
--- a/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.c
+++ b/hw/intc/bcm2836_control.c
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
  * Written by Andrew Baumann
  *
  * Based on bcm2835_ic.c (Raspberry Pi emulation) (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
  *
  * At present, only implements interrupt routing, and mailboxes (i.e.,
  * not PMU interrupt, or AXI counters).
@@ -13,6 +12,9 @@
  *
  * Ref:
  * https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bcm2836/QA7_rev3.4.pdf
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.c b/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.c
index 77d2d80706..2afa06a746 100644
--- a/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.c
+++ b/hw/misc/bcm2835_mbox.c
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
  *
  * This file models the system mailboxes, which are used for
  * communication with low-bandwidth GPU peripherals. Refs:
  *   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki/Mailboxes
  *   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/wiki/Accessing-mailboxes
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
diff --git a/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.c b/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.c
index df91280dfc..3e228ca0ae 100644
--- a/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.c
+++ b/hw/misc/bcm2835_property.c
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 /*
  * Raspberry Pi emulation (c) 2012 Gregory Estrade
- * This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and later.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
