How do I disable “missing docstring” warnings at a file-level in Pylint?

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Pylint throws errors that some of the files are missing docstrings. I try and add docstrings to each class, method and function, but it seems that Pylint also checks that files should have a docstring at the beginning of them. Can I disable this somehow?

I would like to be notified of a docstring is missing inside a class, function or method, but it shouldn"t be mandatory for a file to have a docstring.

(Is there a term for the legal jargon often found at the beginning of a proprietary source file? Any examples? I don"t know whether it is a okay to post such a trivial question separately.)