Can i use Twig and Doctrine in my project which is licensed under GPL license?

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Published on 2010-06-01T18:12:44Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 18:43 UTC
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Can i license my open sourced CMS under GPL v2/v3 license if it uses Twig (BSD License) and Doctrine (LGPL)?

And i also want to know, that do i have to put this text to teh beginning of all my source files...

* This file is part of Foobar.
 * 
 * Foobar is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * Foobar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with Foobar.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

..or can i do it like phpbb does?

/**
*
* @package mcp
* @version $Id$
* @copyright (c) 2005 phpBB Group
* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
*
*/

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