Question about copyright header in po files

Frederik Schwarzer <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:44:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

(please CC me)

in many PO files (translation catalogues) there is a header like this:
# Copyright (C) 2003, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I think KBabel inserted it automatically. Does this header have any 
relevance or can it be removed?

Thanks for your advice.
Regards