Question on license of boilerplate code

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Hello. I tried to create my own starter template for GLFW with OpenGL. Of course, in order to know how to use GLFW I had to use the documentation which tells me how to set things up. My question however is, if that means that I already have to include the zlib license info in my code file? The code is created is the following:

GLFWwindow* init_window()
{
	if (!glfwInit())
	{
		print_error("Initialization of GLFW failed!");
		return nullptr;
	}

	// create window handle
	glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 4);
	GLFWwindow* window = glfwCreateWindow(800, 600, "Demo", NULL, NULL);
	if (!window)
	{
		print_error("Creation of window failed!");
		return nullptr;
	}

	// wire up callbacks
	glfwSetErrorCallback(error_callback);
	glfwSetKeyCallback(window, key_callback);
	glfwSetWindowSizeCallback(window, window_size_callback);

	// makes our window size callback useless for now
	glfwSetWindowAttrib(window, GLFW_RESIZABLE, GLFW_FALSE);

	// create OpenGL context
	glfwMakeContextCurrent(window);
	if (!gladLoadGLLoader((GLADloadproc)glfwGetProcAddress))
	{
		print_error("Creation of OpenGL context failed!");
		return nullptr;
	}

	// enable v-sync
	glfwSwapInterval(1);

	// call callback to set viewport
	window_size_callback(window, 0, 0);

	return window;
}

int main(void)
{
	GLFWwindow* window = init_window();
	if (!window)
	{
		return -1;
	}

	// main loop
	while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window))
	{
		glfwSwapBuffers(window);
		glfwPollEvents();
	}

	glfwDestroyWindow(window);
	
	// bye bye, glfw
	glfwTerminate();

	return 0;
}

It looks quiet a bit different from the one from the tutorial but one might argue, that it is just a modified version of the snippets from the tutorial.

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GLFW is licensed under a zlib/libpng license. You don’t need to add the license to code you write, but as per the license you shouldn’t remove it from any source code you distribute.

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