diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/test.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/test.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c98f5b2..0000000
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/test.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
-on: [push, pull_request]
-
-jobs:
-  test:
-    runs-on: debian-12
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - run: |
-          scripts/check-copyright.sh
-      - run: |
-          apt-get update -qq
-          apt-get install -qq python3-venv wget
-          # copy of https://files.openpower.foundation/s/9izgC5Rogi5Ywmm/download/OPF_PowerISA_v3.1C.pdf
-          wget -O OPF_PowerISA_v3.1C.pdf https://libre-chip.org/OPF_PowerISA_v3.1C.pdf
-          echo "56372d23ece7e9e2c1b381a639443982a3e16e38109df1c141d655b779b61fdb  OPF_PowerISA_v3.1C.pdf" | sha256sum -c
-          python3 -m venv --upgrade-deps .venv
-          . .venv/bin/activate
-          pip install -e .
-          parse_powerisa_pdf OPF_PowerISA_v3.1C.pdf &> >(tee out.log | grep '^page ') || { tail -n1000 out.log; false; }
-          echo "expected output (not all instructions are decoded yet, change when the output is improved):"
-          echo "c0b4592cbd0a3e59b9b2931a6a75a3d87ebf23bf453e8587a1522dd157f15ee9  powerisa-instructions.xml" | sha256sum -c
-
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 37b3676..50e4eb1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
 /.venv
 /.vscode
 *.egg-info
 __pycache__
 *.log
-/powerisa-instructions.xml
-/*.pdf
+/powerisa-instructions.xml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7fd652f..f8fae5d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-<!--
-SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-See Notices.txt for copyright information
--->
 parser for the OPF PowerISA 3.1C pdf to attempt to extract all instructions' pseudo-code including subscripts/superscripts and other formatting
 
 Usage:
diff --git a/parse_powerisa_pdf/parse_powerisa_pdf.py b/parse_powerisa_pdf/parse_powerisa_pdf.py
index a4afd09..c7187d1 100755
--- a/parse_powerisa_pdf/parse_powerisa_pdf.py
+++ b/parse_powerisa_pdf/parse_powerisa_pdf.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
 from __future__ import annotations
 from collections import defaultdict
 from collections.abc import Generator, Iterable, Iterator, Callable
diff --git a/parse_powerisa_pdf/quad_tree.py b/parse_powerisa_pdf/quad_tree.py
index bee9d76..34343e8 100644
--- a/parse_powerisa_pdf/quad_tree.py
+++ b/parse_powerisa_pdf/quad_tree.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
 from __future__ import annotations
 from typing import Callable, Generic, Iterable, Iterator, TypeVar
 from math import frexp, isfinite, isnan, ldexp
diff --git a/parse_powerisa_pdf/set_by_id.py b/parse_powerisa_pdf/set_by_id.py
index 969f8d7..444741b 100644
--- a/parse_powerisa_pdf/set_by_id.py
+++ b/parse_powerisa_pdf/set_by_id.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
 from collections import abc
 from typing import Callable, Generic, Iterable, Iterator, Protocol, TypeAlias, TypeVar, overload
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 68c4029..c2ec3e0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
 [build-system]
 requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/scripts/check-copyright.sh b/scripts/check-copyright.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 640fb4b..0000000
--- a/scripts/check-copyright.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later
-# See Notices.txt for copyright information
-set -e
-
-function fail()
-{
-    local error="$1"
-    echo "error: $error" >&2
-    exit 1
-}
-
-function fail_file()
-{
-    local file="$1" line="$2" error="$3"
-    fail "$file:$((line + 1)): $error"
-}
-
-function check_file()
-{
-    local file="$1" regexes=("${@:2}")
-    local lines
-    mapfile -t lines < "$file"
-    if (("${#lines[@]}" == 0)); then
-        return # empty file, no copyright needed
-    fi
-    local line
-    for line in "${!regexes[@]}"; do
-        eval '[[ "${lines[i]}" =~ '"${regexes[i]}"' ]]' ||
-            fail_file "$file" "$line" "doesn't match regex: ${regexes[i]}"
-    done
-}
-
-POUND_HEADER=('^"# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later"$' '^"# See Notices.txt for copyright information"$')
-MD_HEADER=('^"<!--"$' '^"SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later"$' '^"See Notices.txt for copyright information"$')
-
-function main()
-{
-    local IFS=$'\n'
-    [[ -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ]] || fail "git repo is dirty"
-    local file
-    for file in $(git ls-tree --name-only --full-tree -r HEAD); do
-        case "/$file" in
-        */LICENSE.md|*/Notices.txt)
-            # copyright file
-            ;;
-        /.forgejo/workflows/*.yml|*/.gitignore|*.toml|*.py)
-            check_file "$file" "${POUND_HEADER[@]}"
-            ;;
-        *.md)
-            check_file "$file" "${MD_HEADER[@]}"
-            ;;
-        *.sh)
-            check_file "$file" '^'\''#!'\' "${POUND_HEADER[@]}"
-            ;;
-        *)
-            fail_file "$file" 0 "unimplemented file kind -- you need to add it to $0"
-            ;;
-        esac
-    done
-}
-
-main