RC2102: String literal too long

I am trying to compile GLEW in VS2012, but the resource files will not compile and I get "error RC2102: string literal too long". Can anyone explain how/why this error occurs, and if there is any way to fix it without making the string shorter. (The string contains copyright/license info). Here is one of the offending .rc files:

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO 
FILEVERSION 1, 9, 0, 0
PRODUCTVERSION 1, 9, 0, 0
FILEFLAGSMASK VS_FFI_FILEFLAGSMASK
#ifdef _DEBUG
FILEFLAGS VS_FF_DEBUG
#else
FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
FILETYPE VFT_APP
FILESUBTYPE VFT2_UNKNOWN
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904b0"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "Comments", "The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library\r\nCopyright (C) 2002-2008, Milan Ikits <milan ikits[]ieee org>\r\nCopyright (C) 2002-2008, Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo[]debian org>\r\nCopyright (C) 2002, Lev Povalahev\r\nAll rights reserved.\r\n \r\nRedistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without \r\nmodification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:\r\n\r\n* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, \r\n  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.\r\n* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, \r\n  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation \r\n  and/or other materials provided with the distribution.\r\n* The name of the author may be used to endorse or promote products \r\n  derived from this software without specific prior written permission.\r\n\r\nTHIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 'AS IS' \r\nAND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE \r\nIMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE\r\nARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE \r\nLIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR