diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 58be0aee37c..3717d3372ea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ For more information about this file see also [Keep a Changelog](http://keepacha
 
 - The following components have changed their licensing. With approval of all their contributors, we now provide them under a BSD 3-clause license rather than the previously used NCSA Open Source license. As a reminder, we intend to relicense the entire system and this list will expand as we gather permission from the relevant copyright owners.
     * `apps/api`
-    * Shiny apps `dbsync`, `Data-Ingest`, `Elicitation`, `ForecastingDashboard`, `global-sensitivity`, `Pecan.depend`, and `SDAdashboard`
-    * Base packages `PEcAn.all`, `PEcAn.QAQC`, `PEcAn.remote`, `PEcAn.settings`, and `PEcAn.workflow`
-    * Model packages `PEcAn.BASGRA`, `PEcAn.dvmdostem`, `PEcAn.FATES`, `PEcAn.GDAY`, `PEcAn.LDNDC`, `PEcAn.MAAT`, `PEcAn.MAESPA`, `PEcAn.SIBCASA`, `PEcAn.STICS`, and the new model package template.
-    * Modules `PEcAn.data.mining`, `PEcAn.emulator`, amd `PEcAn.RTM`.
+    * Shiny apps `dbsync`, `BenchmarkReport`, `Data-Ingest`, `Elicitation`, `ForecastingDashboard`, `global-sensitivity`, `Pecan.depend`, `SDAdashboard`, and `ViewMet`
+    * Base packages `PEcAn.all`, `PEcAn.DB`, `PEcAn.QAQC`, `PEcAn.remote`, `PEcAn.settings`, `PEcAn.visualization`, and `PEcAn.workflow`
+    * Model packages `PEcAn.BASGRA`, `PEcAn.CLM45`, `PEcAn.DALEC`, `PEcAn.dvmdostem`, `PEcAn.FATES`, `PEcAn.GDAY`, `PEcAn.JULES`, `PEcAn.LDNDC`, `PEcAn.LINKAGES`, `PEcAn.LPJGUESS`, `PEcAn.MAAT`, `PEcAn.MAESPA`, `PEcAn.PRELES`, `PEcAn.SIBCASA`, `PEcAn.SIPNET`, `PEcAn.STICS`, and the new model package template.
+    * Modules `PEcAn.allometry`, `PEcAn.assim.batch`, `PEcAn.data.mining`, `PEcAn.emulator`, `PEcAn.MA`, `PEcAn.photosynthesis`, `PEcAn.priors`, and `PEcAn.RTM`.
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 69b3e155809..91ed7f17c2b 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,39 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
+All portions of the PEcAn project not marked otherwise are distributed under the BSD 3-clause license:
 
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
+Copyright (c) 2012-2024 Pecan Project
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
+are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
+this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
+and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+
+3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
+may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
+specific prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND
+ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
+DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
+CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
+OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+
+
+
+----------------------------------
+
+
+Portions of the PEcAn project are distributed under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License:
 
 Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
 
@@ -36,33 +69,3 @@ WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
 
 
 --------------------
-
-
-Portions of the PEcAn project are distributed under the BSD 3-clause license:
-
-Copyright (c) 2024 Pecan Project
-
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
-are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-
-1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
-list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-
-2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
-this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
-and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-
-3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
-may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
-specific prior written permission.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND
-ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
-WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
-DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
-FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
-DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
-SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
-CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
-OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
-OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
diff --git a/base/db/LICENSE b/base/db/LICENSE
index 9e38c2dc685..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/base/db/LICENSE
+++ b/base/db/LICENSE
@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/base/db/NEWS.md b/base/db/NEWS.md
index fec3739e5f0..5d008066052 100644
--- a/base/db/NEWS.md
+++ b/base/db/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # PEcAn.DB 1.8.0.9000
 
+## License change
+* PEcAn.DB is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
 
 
 # PEcAn.DB 1.8.0
diff --git a/base/db/R/assign.treatments.R b/base/db/R/assign.treatments.R
index d75f6b20b3a..3779d327676 100644
--- a/base/db/R/assign.treatments.R
+++ b/base/db/R/assign.treatments.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Change treatments to sequential integers
 ##'
 ##' Assigns all control treatments the same value, then assigns unique treatments
diff --git a/base/db/R/check.lists.R b/base/db/R/check.lists.R
index 18e7c8b3840..cc131ca59ed 100644
--- a/base/db/R/check.lists.R
+++ b/base/db/R/check.lists.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Check two lists. Identical does not work since one can be loaded
 ##' from the database and the other from a CSV file.
 ##'
diff --git a/base/db/R/covariate.functions.R b/base/db/R/covariate.functions.R
index 31c93009ee9..c40e3ca5a05 100644
--- a/base/db/R/covariate.functions.R
+++ b/base/db/R/covariate.functions.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ######################## COVARIATE FUNCTIONS #################################
 
 ##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
diff --git a/base/db/R/dbfiles.R b/base/db/R/dbfiles.R
index e0f9556779b..4214c06837b 100644
--- a/base/db/R/dbfiles.R
+++ b/base/db/R/dbfiles.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Function to insert a file into the dbfiles table as an input
 ##'
 ##' This will write into the dbfiles, inputs, machines and formats the required
diff --git a/base/db/R/derive.trait.R b/base/db/R/derive.trait.R
index 7abc5b9cc64..01264b25e5e 100644
--- a/base/db/R/derive.trait.R
+++ b/base/db/R/derive.trait.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##'
 ##' Performs an arithmetic function, FUN, over a series of traits and returns
 ##' the result as a derived trait.
diff --git a/base/db/R/derive.traits.R b/base/db/R/derive.traits.R
index c5b8be9e7ec..cb8265149ab 100644
--- a/base/db/R/derive.traits.R
+++ b/base/db/R/derive.traits.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Equivalent to derive.trait(), but operates over a series of trait datasets,
 ##' as opposed to individual trait rows. See \code{\link{derive.trait}}; for more information.
 ##'
diff --git a/base/db/R/fetch.stats2se.R b/base/db/R/fetch.stats2se.R
index 7425399f3c3..d0bad8ae465 100644
--- a/base/db/R/fetch.stats2se.R
+++ b/base/db/R/fetch.stats2se.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Queries data from the trait database and transforms statistics to SE
 ##'
 ##' Performs query and then uses \code{transformstats} to convert miscellaneous statistical summaries
diff --git a/base/db/R/get.trait.data.R b/base/db/R/get.trait.data.R
index f181856639c..b307da08c0b 100644
--- a/base/db/R/get.trait.data.R
+++ b/base/db/R/get.trait.data.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Get trait data from the database.
 ##'
 ##' This will use the following items from settings:
diff --git a/base/db/R/get.trait.data.pft.R b/base/db/R/get.trait.data.pft.R
index 5556930d449..a2af9c5215a 100644
--- a/base/db/R/get.trait.data.pft.R
+++ b/base/db/R/get.trait.data.pft.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Get trait data from the database for a single PFT
 ##'
 ##' @details `pft` should be a list containing at least `name` and `outdir`, and optionally `posteriorid` and `constants`. BEWARE: All existing files in `outir` will be deleted!
diff --git a/base/db/R/pft.add.spp.R b/base/db/R/pft.add.spp.R
index ce8cf1c3b10..0193aae9c5a 100644
--- a/base/db/R/pft.add.spp.R
+++ b/base/db/R/pft.add.spp.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ## M. Dietze
 ##' adds a list of species to a pft based on USDA Plants acronyms
 ##'
diff --git a/base/db/R/query.data.R b/base/db/R/query.data.R
index bed236305af..73ca64a7b81 100644
--- a/base/db/R/query.data.R
+++ b/base/db/R/query.data.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Function to query data from database for specific species and convert stat to SE
 ##'
 ##' @name query.data
diff --git a/base/db/R/query.pft.R b/base/db/R/query.pft.R
index 3a4b231953f..1c45f215622 100644
--- a/base/db/R/query.pft.R
+++ b/base/db/R/query.pft.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##'  select plant id's associated with pft
 ##'
 ##' @title Query species given pft name
diff --git a/base/db/R/query.prior.R b/base/db/R/query.prior.R
index 736565641f7..6c078dd8aa4 100644
--- a/base/db/R/query.prior.R
+++ b/base/db/R/query.prior.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Query Priors
 ##'
 ##' Query priors associated with a plant functional type and a set of traits.
diff --git a/base/db/R/query.trait.data.R b/base/db/R/query.trait.data.R
index 3162372f0f5..e55b781ab9b 100644
--- a/base/db/R/query.trait.data.R
+++ b/base/db/R/query.trait.data.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Extract trait data from database
 ##'
 ##' Extracts data from database for a given trait and set of species,
diff --git a/base/db/R/query.traits.R b/base/db/R/query.traits.R
index 5b4dab14c68..0d7f54815a1 100644
--- a/base/db/R/query.traits.R
+++ b/base/db/R/query.traits.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Query available trait data associated with a given pft and a list of traits
 ##'
 ##' @name query.traits
diff --git a/base/db/R/query.yields.R b/base/db/R/query.yields.R
index 4f07ef01b74..dfaef5956dc 100644
--- a/base/db/R/query.yields.R
+++ b/base/db/R/query.yields.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Function to query yields data from database for specific species and convert stat to SE
 ##'
 ##' @name query.yields
diff --git a/base/db/R/symmetric_setdiff.R b/base/db/R/symmetric_setdiff.R
index 1056ec0b5fd..9f8b2f146dd 100644
--- a/base/db/R/symmetric_setdiff.R
+++ b/base/db/R/symmetric_setdiff.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 #' Symmetric set difference of two data frames
 #'
 #' @param x,y `data.frame`s to compare
diff --git a/base/db/R/take.samples.R b/base/db/R/take.samples.R
index aa755a7e45e..06507a2cfba 100644
--- a/base/db/R/take.samples.R
+++ b/base/db/R/take.samples.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' sample from normal distribution, given summary stats
 ##'
 ##' @name take.samples
diff --git a/base/db/R/utils_db.R b/base/db/R/utils_db.R
index 938b504e294..f59a9c3c2fe 100644
--- a/base/db/R/utils_db.R
+++ b/base/db/R/utils_db.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 .db.utils <- new.env()
 .db.utils$created <- 0
diff --git a/base/db/tests/testthat.R b/base/db/tests/testthat.R
index d2515cd48b8..03f6b840cbf 100644
--- a/base/db/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/base/db/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 
 library(PEcAn.DB)
diff --git a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.contents_sanity.R b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.contents_sanity.R
index 6b1ad0eee85..9a11d2bb7ae 100644
--- a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.contents_sanity.R
+++ b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.contents_sanity.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 context("Basic Sanity tests for PEcAn functions that query BETYdb")
 test_that("append.covariates appends managements to yields",{
   con <- check_db_test()
diff --git a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.db.utils.R b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.db.utils.R
index 85e4b17a661..7d8839357e2 100644
--- a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.db.utils.R
+++ b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.db.utils.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 context("Testing utility functions")
 
 test_that("get.id works on some tables, and with different inputs", {
diff --git a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.derive.traits.R b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.derive.traits.R
index 4ba88caf3ed..b389b401f31 100644
--- a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.derive.traits.R
+++ b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.derive.traits.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 test_that("derive.traits works",{
   set.seed(0)
   input <- list(x = data.frame(mean = 1, stat = 1, n = 1))
diff --git a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.query.base.R b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.query.base.R
index 43f60555bd2..301d10b7c90 100644
--- a/base/db/tests/testthat/test.query.base.R
+++ b/base/db/tests/testthat/test.query.base.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 context("test db.query")
 
 test_that("db.query can execute a trivial SQL statement and return results",{  
diff --git a/base/visualization/LICENSE b/base/visualization/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/base/visualization/LICENSE
+++ b/base/visualization/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/base/visualization/NEWS.md b/base/visualization/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..04eb05d89a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/visualization/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# PEcAn.visualization 1.8.0.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.visualization is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.visualization 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of
+  the PEcAn packages; please see
+  https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/base/visualization/R/plot_netcdf.R b/base/visualization/R/plot_netcdf.R
index 1dcdcac74cd..451e4d89f7f 100644
--- a/base/visualization/R/plot_netcdf.R
+++ b/base/visualization/R/plot_netcdf.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # PRIVATE FUNCTIONS
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/base/visualization/R/plots.R b/base/visualization/R/plots.R
index 85b6534142f..40bebb9510a 100644
--- a/base/visualization/R/plots.R
+++ b/base/visualization/R/plots.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Variable-width (diagonally cut) histogram
 ##'
 ##' When constructing a histogram, it is common to make all bars the same width.
diff --git a/base/visualization/tests/testthat.R b/base/visualization/tests/testthat.R
index d296184d0f0..461fd30776d 100644
--- a/base/visualization/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/base/visualization/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.visualization)
 
diff --git a/base/visualization/tests/testthat/test.viz.R b/base/visualization/tests/testthat/test.viz.R
index 3dffbdd7ca8..d205843a58e 100644
--- a/base/visualization/tests/testthat/test.viz.R
+++ b/base/visualization/tests/testthat/test.viz.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-## -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-##  Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-##  All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-##  are made available under the terms of the 
-##  University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-##  which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-##  http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 context("Testing Visualization")
 
diff --git a/models/clm45/LICENSE b/models/clm45/LICENSE
index 9e38c2dc685..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/clm45/LICENSE
+++ b/models/clm45/LICENSE
@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/clm45/NEWS.md b/models/clm45/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..72171423795
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/clm45/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.CLM45 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.CLM45 is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.CLM45 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/clm45/R/met2model.CLM45.R b/models/clm45/R/met2model.CLM45.R
index 60dda63ca0f..f8759922a13 100644
--- a/models/clm45/R/met2model.CLM45.R
+++ b/models/clm45/R/met2model.CLM45.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#
 ## R Code to convert NetCDF CF met files into NetCDF CLM met files.
 
 ##' met2model wrapper for CLM45
diff --git a/models/clm45/R/model2netcdf.CLM45.R b/models/clm45/R/model2netcdf.CLM45.R
index 6f028bf4768..ec98d75e13a 100644
--- a/models/clm45/R/model2netcdf.CLM45.R
+++ b/models/clm45/R/model2netcdf.CLM45.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-## -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-## Copyright (c) 2015 NCSA.
-## All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-## are made available under the terms of the 
-## University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-## which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-## http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 ##' 
 ##' @name model2netcdf.CLM45
 ##' @title Code to convert CLM45 netcdf output into into CF standard
diff --git a/models/clm45/R/write.configs.CLM45.R b/models/clm45/R/write.configs.CLM45.R
index 205e733537e..7c4c6a88b33 100644
--- a/models/clm45/R/write.configs.CLM45.R
+++ b/models/clm45/R/write.configs.CLM45.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-##------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-##Copyright (c) 2015 NCSA
-##All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-##are made available under the terms of the 
-##University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-##which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-##http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-##------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Writes config files for use with the Community Land Model model.
 ##'
 ##' @name write.config.CLM45
diff --git a/models/clm45/tests/testthat.R b/models/clm45/tests/testthat.R
index 2582bc74de6..bd9de84301b 100644
--- a/models/clm45/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/models/clm45/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/models/dalec/DESCRIPTION b/models/dalec/DESCRIPTION
index 3dacc2cb3fc..a73bd635c4d 100644
--- a/models/dalec/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/models/dalec/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Version: 1.7.3.9000
 Authors@R: c(person("Mike", "Dietze", role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "dietze@bu.edu"),
              person("Tristan", "Quaife", role = c("aut")),
-             person("University of Illinois, NCSA", role = c("cph")))
+             person("University of Illinois, NCSA", role = c("cph")),
+             person("Boston University", role = c("cph")))
 Author: Mike Dietze, Tristain Quaife
 Maintainer: Mike Dietze <dietze@bu.edu>
 Description: This module provides functions to link DALEC to PEcAn.
diff --git a/models/dalec/LICENSE b/models/dalec/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/dalec/LICENSE
+++ b/models/dalec/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/dalec/NEWS.md b/models/dalec/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cd70e8ae222
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/dalec/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.DALEC 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.DALEC is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.DALEC 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/dalec/R/met2model.DALEC.R b/models/dalec/R/met2model.DALEC.R
index 242bfe61110..8658471f972 100644
--- a/models/dalec/R/met2model.DALEC.R
+++ b/models/dalec/R/met2model.DALEC.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 Boston University, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 # R Code to convert NetCDF CF met files into DALEC met files
 
 ## If files already exist in 'Outfolder', the default function is NOT to overwrite them and only
diff --git a/models/dalec/R/model2netcdf.DALEC.R b/models/dalec/R/model2netcdf.DALEC.R
index 71e7b9a9ef0..18be5fcb01f 100644
--- a/models/dalec/R/model2netcdf.DALEC.R
+++ b/models/dalec/R/model2netcdf.DALEC.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 Boston University, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Convert DALEC output to netCDF
 ##'
 ##' Converts all output contained in a folder to netCDF.
diff --git a/models/dalec/R/write.configs.dalec.R b/models/dalec/R/write.configs.dalec.R
index 21e481c242a..863e5fc1ecf 100644
--- a/models/dalec/R/write.configs.dalec.R
+++ b/models/dalec/R/write.configs.dalec.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 Boston University, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 # Template for functions to prepare and write out files model-specific configuration files for MA
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
diff --git a/models/jules/LICENSE b/models/jules/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/jules/LICENSE
+++ b/models/jules/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/jules/NEWS.md b/models/jules/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b5ab1d8d20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/jules/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.JULES 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.JULES is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.JULES 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/jules/R/model2netcdf.JULES.R b/models/jules/R/model2netcdf.JULES.R
index 6270cb6da0c..733bef29e1b 100755
--- a/models/jules/R/model2netcdf.JULES.R
+++ b/models/jules/R/model2netcdf.JULES.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Convert MODEL output into the PEcAn standard
 ##' 
 ##' @name model2netcdf.JULES
diff --git a/models/jules/R/write.config.JULES.R b/models/jules/R/write.config.JULES.R
index f68cce831ac..1f01f7b60be 100644
--- a/models/jules/R/write.config.JULES.R
+++ b/models/jules/R/write.config.JULES.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Writes a JULES config file.
 ##'
 ##' Requires a pft xml object, a list of trait values for a single model run,
diff --git a/models/jules/tests/testthat.R b/models/jules/tests/testthat.R
index 060471e6cbb..ba6e49d00b7 100644
--- a/models/jules/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/models/jules/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/models/linkages/LICENSE b/models/linkages/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/linkages/LICENSE
+++ b/models/linkages/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/linkages/NEWS.md b/models/linkages/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0899764fc20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/linkages/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.LINKAGES 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.LINKAGES is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.LINKAGES 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/met2model.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/met2model.LINKAGES.R
index 9d7c28136b7..f1db9f3e2b5 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/met2model.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/met2model.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Converts a met CF file to a model specific met file. The input
 ##' files are calld <in.path>/<in.prefix>.YYYY.cf
 ##'
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/model2netcdf.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/model2netcdf.LINKAGES.R
index e2a059c3fec..a24b9f017f7 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/model2netcdf.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/model2netcdf.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Convert MODEL output into the NACP Intercomparison format (ALMA using netCDF)
 ##'
 ##' @name model2netcdf.LINKAGES
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/read_restart.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/read_restart.LINKAGES.R
index c4173f888f1..c5d59f2957d 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/read_restart.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/read_restart.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' @title read_restart.LINKAGES
 ##' @name  read_restart.LINKAGES
 ##' @author Ann Raiho \email{araiho@@nd.edu}
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/sample.IC.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/sample.IC.LINKAGES.R
index 3c77427a5f2..0b278c74e55 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/sample.IC.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/sample.IC.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 sample.IC.LINKAGES <- function(ne, state, year = NULL) {
   ## g C * m-2 ground area in wood (above-ground + roots)
   biomass_tsca = ifelse(rep("biomass_tsca" %in% names(state), ne),
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/spinup.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/spinup.LINKAGES.R
index 1b9df3592e3..cff880fcf5a 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/spinup.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/spinup.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 spinup.LINKAGES <- function(start.year, end.year, temp.mat, precip.mat, paleon = NULL) {
   if (is.null(paleon)) {
     paleon <- TRUE  # Why not just have `paleon = TRUE` above?
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/split_inputs.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/split_inputs.LINKAGES.R
index 142b9d64423..9be21c69ddb 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/split_inputs.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/split_inputs.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved. This program and the
-# accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the University of Illinois/NCSA
-# Open Source License which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' @title split_inputs.LINKAGES
 ##' @name  split_inputs.LINKAGES
 ##' @author Ann Raiho
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/write.config.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/write.config.LINKAGES.R
index b656d14f294..3cb2dec58fe 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/write.config.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/write.config.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Writes a LINKAGES config file.
 ##'
 ##' Requires a pft xml object, a list of trait values for a single model run,
diff --git a/models/linkages/R/write_restart.LINKAGES.R b/models/linkages/R/write_restart.LINKAGES.R
index 77b073590b5..39b0a24cec4 100644
--- a/models/linkages/R/write_restart.LINKAGES.R
+++ b/models/linkages/R/write_restart.LINKAGES.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' @title write_restart.LINKAGES
 ##' @name  write_restart.LINKAGES
 ##' @author Ann Raiho \email{araiho@@nd.edu}
diff --git a/models/linkages/tests/testthat.R b/models/linkages/tests/testthat.R
index 15a638d15e9..bf752b76016 100644
--- a/models/linkages/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/models/linkages/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/LICENSE b/models/lpjguess/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/lpjguess/LICENSE
+++ b/models/lpjguess/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/NEWS.md b/models/lpjguess/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..63b168f3e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/lpjguess/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.LPJGUESS 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.LPJGUESS is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.LPJGUESS 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/R/met2model.LPJGUESS.R b/models/lpjguess/R/met2model.LPJGUESS.R
index 9b05a54db8f..3b719881d14 100644
--- a/models/lpjguess/R/met2model.LPJGUESS.R
+++ b/models/lpjguess/R/met2model.LPJGUESS.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 # R Code to convert NetCDF CF met files into LPJ-GUESS met files
 
 ## If files already exist in 'Outfolder', the default function is NOT to overwrite them and only
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/R/model2netcdf.LPJGUESS.R b/models/lpjguess/R/model2netcdf.LPJGUESS.R
index a92c343fb77..c5202833104 100644
--- a/models/lpjguess/R/model2netcdf.LPJGUESS.R
+++ b/models/lpjguess/R/model2netcdf.LPJGUESS.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Convert LPJ-GUESS output to netCDF
 ##' 
 ##' @name model2netcdf.LPJGUESS
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/R/readStateBinary.LPJGUESS.R b/models/lpjguess/R/readStateBinary.LPJGUESS.R
index 89ffb0f5969..ffba146ac52 100644
--- a/models/lpjguess/R/readStateBinary.LPJGUESS.R
+++ b/models/lpjguess/R/readStateBinary.LPJGUESS.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 # R Code to convert NetCDF CF met files into LPJ-GUESS met files
 
 ## If files already exist in 'Outfolder', the default function is NOT to overwrite them and only
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/R/write.config.LPJGUESS.R b/models/lpjguess/R/write.config.LPJGUESS.R
index 8c5f900704f..c326edab6ec 100644
--- a/models/lpjguess/R/write.config.LPJGUESS.R
+++ b/models/lpjguess/R/write.config.LPJGUESS.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Writes a LPJ-GUESS config file.
 ##'
 ##' Requires a pft xml object, a list of trait values for a single model run,
diff --git a/models/lpjguess/tests/testthat.R b/models/lpjguess/tests/testthat.R
index 59cf12a4475..481a3f96014 100644
--- a/models/lpjguess/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/models/lpjguess/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/models/preles/LICENSE b/models/preles/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/preles/LICENSE
+++ b/models/preles/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/preles/NEWS.md b/models/preles/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..460c0509e66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/preles/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.PRELES 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.PRELES is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.PRELES 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/preles/R/runPRELES.jobsh.R b/models/preles/R/runPRELES.jobsh.R
index deb925a4b3a..26237e003d5 100644
--- a/models/preles/R/runPRELES.jobsh.R
+++ b/models/preles/R/runPRELES.jobsh.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' @title Function to process ncdf file, run PRELES model, and convert output .nc file in CF standard
 ##' @param in.path location on disk where inputs are stored
 ##' @param in.prefix prefix of input and output files
diff --git a/models/preles/R/write.config.PRELES.R b/models/preles/R/write.config.PRELES.R
index fb31d2e705d..9a7e6423247 100644
--- a/models/preles/R/write.config.PRELES.R
+++ b/models/preles/R/write.config.PRELES.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Writes a PRELES config file.
 ##'
 ##' @name write.config.PRELES
diff --git a/models/preles/tests/testthat.R b/models/preles/tests/testthat.R
index 73f5a5f9fb8..4d3ef970446 100644
--- a/models/preles/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/models/preles/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/models/sipnet/LICENSE b/models/sipnet/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/models/sipnet/LICENSE
+++ b/models/sipnet/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/models/sipnet/NEWS.md b/models/sipnet/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e79578461af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/sipnet/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# PEcAn.SIPNET 1.8.0.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.SIPNET is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+# PEcAn.SIPNET 1.8.0
+
+* Support for all Sipnet variables in read_restart and write_restart, for integration with state data assimilation workflows
+
+# PEcAn.SIPNET 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/met2model.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/met2model.SIPNET.R
index 1334e284317..919137eadbf 100644
--- a/models/sipnet/R/met2model.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/met2model.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 # R Code to convert NetCDF CF met files into SIPNET met files
 
 ## If files already exist in 'Outfolder', the default function is NOT to overwrite them and only
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/model2netcdf.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/model2netcdf.SIPNET.R
index ca01fff0814..96a2b016abc 100644
--- a/models/sipnet/R/model2netcdf.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/model2netcdf.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 #' Merge multiple NetCDF files into one
 #' 
 #' @param files \code{character}. List of filepaths, which should lead to NetCDF files.
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/read_restart.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/read_restart.SIPNET.R
index adda2f55716..2260c71a476 100755
--- a/models/sipnet/R/read_restart.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/read_restart.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' @title Read restart function for SDA with SIPNET
 ##' 
 ##' @author Ann Raiho \email{araiho@@nd.edu}
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/sample.IC.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/sample.IC.SIPNET.R
index d1578c4df33..0a68647d4fc 100644
--- a/models/sipnet/R/sample.IC.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/sample.IC.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ## samples intial conditions for SIPNET
 ##' @title sample.IC.SIPNET
 ##' @name  sample.IC.SIPNET
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/split_inputs.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/split_inputs.SIPNET.R
index cd674647817..b47289d567a 100644
--- a/models/sipnet/R/split_inputs.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/split_inputs.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ## split clim file into smaller time units to use in KF
 ##' @title split_inputs.SIPNET
 ##' @name  split_inputs.SIPNET
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/write.configs.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/write.configs.SIPNET.R
index ffa65a5ee62..c294808b7b5 100755
--- a/models/sipnet/R/write.configs.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/write.configs.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Writes a configuration files for your model
 ##' @name write.config.SIPNET
 ##' @title Writes a configuration files for SIPNET model
diff --git a/models/sipnet/R/write_restart.SIPNET.R b/models/sipnet/R/write_restart.SIPNET.R
index 455266f971e..6bd62c3b3a7 100755
--- a/models/sipnet/R/write_restart.SIPNET.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/R/write_restart.SIPNET.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' @title write_restart.SIPNET
 ##' @name  write_restart.SIPNET
 ##' @author Ann Raiho \email{araiho@@nd.edu}
diff --git a/models/sipnet/tests/testthat.R b/models/sipnet/tests/testthat.R
index 339f0c32a30..7a1fc04289f 100644
--- a/models/sipnet/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/models/sipnet/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/modules/allometry/LICENSE b/modules/allometry/LICENSE
index 9e38c2dc685..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/LICENSE
+++ b/modules/allometry/LICENSE
@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/modules/allometry/NEWS.md b/modules/allometry/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d0bcb027c0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/allometry/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.allometry 1.7.2.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.allometry is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.allometry 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/modules/allometry/R/AllomAve.R b/modules/allometry/R/AllomAve.R
index af297be4d7c..357da3edb19 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/R/AllomAve.R
+++ b/modules/allometry/R/AllomAve.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #' AllomAve
 #'
diff --git a/modules/allometry/R/allom.BayesFit.R b/modules/allometry/R/allom.BayesFit.R
index 7ddc1011ac2..91e92022435 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/R/allom.BayesFit.R
+++ b/modules/allometry/R/allom.BayesFit.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #' allom.BayesFit
 #'
diff --git a/modules/allometry/R/allom.predict.R b/modules/allometry/R/allom.predict.R
index 2423fc283db..ea94f83526f 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/R/allom.predict.R
+++ b/modules/allometry/R/allom.predict.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #' allom.predict
 #'
diff --git a/modules/allometry/R/query.allom.data.R b/modules/allometry/R/query.allom.data.R
index 8234e0b2dfd..26eb0ed8aac 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/R/query.allom.data.R
+++ b/modules/allometry/R/query.allom.data.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #' query.allom.data
 #'
diff --git a/modules/allometry/R/read.allom.data.R b/modules/allometry/R/read.allom.data.R
index 09c560d1c63..8b48962a9dc 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/R/read.allom.data.R
+++ b/modules/allometry/R/read.allom.data.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2015 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #' read.allom.data
 #' 
diff --git a/modules/allometry/tests/testthat.R b/modules/allometry/tests/testthat.R
index a775e051786..4194358dc88 100644
--- a/modules/allometry/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/modules/allometry/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.utils)
 
diff --git a/modules/assim.batch/LICENSE b/modules/assim.batch/LICENSE
index 9e38c2dc685..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/modules/assim.batch/LICENSE
+++ b/modules/assim.batch/LICENSE
@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/modules/assim.batch/NEWS.md b/modules/assim.batch/NEWS.md
index d1c0b35b72c..2e34eecf11e 100644
--- a/modules/assim.batch/NEWS.md
+++ b/modules/assim.batch/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # PEcAn.assim.batch 1.8.0.9000
 
+## License change
+* PEcAn.assim.batch is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
 
 
 # PEcAn.assim.batch 1.8.0
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/LICENSE b/modules/meta.analysis/LICENSE
index 9e38c2dc685..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/LICENSE
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/LICENSE
@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/NEWS.md b/modules/meta.analysis/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1967a5fd637
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# PEcAn.MA 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.MA is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.MA 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/approx.posterior.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/approx.posterior.R
index ca66f183b4f..cb856c6d0d5 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/approx.posterior.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/approx.posterior.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Approximate the posterior MCMC with a closed form pdf
 ##'
 ##' returns priors where posterior MCMC are missing
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/jagify.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/jagify.R
index 70a0bb84c0e..1f80121d31d 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/jagify.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/jagify.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##'
 ##' Convert queried data to format required by JAGS meta-analysis model 
 ##'
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.R
index e150b1f5687..dfae26db4fa 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Trait Meta-analysis
 ##'
 ##' Runs hierarchical meta-analysis of plant trait data
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.summary.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.summary.R
index 62cbf6faf13..7e28c29ce7b 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.summary.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.summary.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Generate summary statistics and diagnostics for PEcAn meta.analysis
 ##'
 ##' @param mcmc.object JAGS mcmc output from \code{\link{pecan.ma}}
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.write.model.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.write.model.R
index f8b49350454..db3a6e03ba5 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.write.model.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/meta.analysis.write.model.R
@@ -1,12 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 ##' Convert template ma.model.template.R to a JAGS model.
 ##'
 ##' Writes a meta-analysis model based on available data and prior specification.
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/rename_jags_columns.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/rename_jags_columns.R
index 43d22ef7b0e..dd6676c307f 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/rename_jags_columns.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/rename_jags_columns.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-##-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Renames the variables within output data frame trait.data
 ##'
 ##' @param data data frame to with variables to rename
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/run.meta.analysis.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/run.meta.analysis.R
index 65afcdf61bd..360d3453a0a 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/run.meta.analysis.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/run.meta.analysis.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 run.meta.analysis.pft <- function(pft, iterations, random = TRUE, threshold = 1.2, dbfiles, dbcon, use_ghs = TRUE, update = FALSE) {
   # check to see if get.trait was executed
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/R/single.MA.R b/modules/meta.analysis/R/single.MA.R
index 836e6ae8b79..89377fcb039 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/R/single.MA.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/R/single.MA.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 ##' Individual Meta-analysis
 ##'
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat.R b/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat.R
index c2dcd0f0512..1681958672a 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 library(PEcAn.MA)
 
diff --git a/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat/test.approx.posterior.R b/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat/test.approx.posterior.R
index 51499ef662d..5be5ee4153b 100644
--- a/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat/test.approx.posterior.R
+++ b/modules/meta.analysis/tests/testthat/test.approx.posterior.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 context("test approx.posterior function")
 
 load("data/trait.mcmc.RData")
diff --git a/modules/photosynthesis/LICENSE b/modules/photosynthesis/LICENSE
index 487f189dfcd..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/modules/photosynthesis/LICENSE
+++ b/modules/photosynthesis/LICENSE
@@ -1,32 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/modules/photosynthesis/NEWS.md b/modules/photosynthesis/NEWS.md
index c324fb63283..e3786699302 100644
--- a/modules/photosynthesis/NEWS.md
+++ b/modules/photosynthesis/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # PEcAn.photosynthesis 1.7.3.9000
 
+## License change
+* PEcAn.photosynthesis is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
 
 
 # PEcAn.photosynthesis 1.7.3
diff --git a/modules/priors/LICENSE b/modules/priors/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/modules/priors/LICENSE
+++ b/modules/priors/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/modules/priors/NEWS.md b/modules/priors/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..43373f15666
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/priors/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# PEcAn.priors 1.7.3.9000
+
+## License change
+* PEcAn.priors is now distributed under the BSD three-clause license instead of the NCSA Open Source license.
+
+
+# PEcAn.priors 1.7.1
+
+* All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see 
+https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.
diff --git a/modules/priors/R/priors.R b/modules/priors/R/priors.R
index 1afbc001a51..75d73874acc 100644
--- a/modules/priors/R/priors.R
+++ b/modules/priors/R/priors.R
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
 ##' Fit a distribution to data
 ##'
 ##' @title Fit distribution to data  
diff --git a/modules/priors/tests/testthat.R b/modules/priors/tests/testthat.R
index 594bfe02e9d..a78a81228a7 100644
--- a/modules/priors/tests/testthat.R
+++ b/modules/priors/tests/testthat.R
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Copyright (c) 2012 University of Illinois, NCSA.
-# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
-# are made available under the terms of the 
-# University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
-# http://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/license.html
-#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 library(testthat)
 
 PEcAn.logger::logger.setQuitOnSevere(FALSE)
diff --git a/shiny/BenchmarkReport/LICENSE b/shiny/BenchmarkReport/LICENSE
index 26efbfea4dc..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/shiny/BenchmarkReport/LICENSE
+++ b/shiny/BenchmarkReport/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-                                                            "Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-  
-  - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/shiny/ViewMet/LICENSE b/shiny/ViewMet/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/shiny/ViewMet/LICENSE
+++ b/shiny/ViewMet/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations