diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 2e061c3773..44fdf9c9fb 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I build-aux/m4
 SUBDIRS = src
 if ENABLE_MAN
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index ebdddc87f5..e7f1d82b8b 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 DIST_SUBDIRS = secp256k1 univalue
 
 AM_LDFLAGS = $(PTHREAD_CFLAGS) $(LIBTOOL_LDFLAGS) $(HARDENED_LDFLAGS)
diff --git a/src/Makefile.bench.include b/src/Makefile.bench.include
index 4067ceb399..8c024a8c4a 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.bench.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.bench.include
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 bin_PROGRAMS += bench/bench_bitcoin
 BENCH_SRCDIR = bench
 BENCH_BINARY = bench/bench_bitcoin$(EXEEXT)
diff --git a/src/Makefile.leveldb.include b/src/Makefile.leveldb.include
index 4b3cd6364a..d7346aa181 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.leveldb.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.leveldb.include
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 LIBLEVELDB_INT = leveldb/libleveldb.a
 LIBMEMENV_INT  = leveldb/libmemenv.a
 
diff --git a/src/Makefile.qt.include b/src/Makefile.qt.include
index 8947aeaca0..35a1f68907 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.qt.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.qt.include
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 bin_PROGRAMS += qt/bitcoin-qt
 EXTRA_LIBRARIES += qt/libbitcoinqt.a
 
diff --git a/src/Makefile.qttest.include b/src/Makefile.qttest.include
index 0a7efb5d5b..cb310d5a1b 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.qttest.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.qttest.include
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 bin_PROGRAMS += qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
 TESTS += qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
 
diff --git a/src/Makefile.test.include b/src/Makefile.test.include
index 0748d1a39d..5ce1bbb896 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.test.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.test.include
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
 TESTS += test/test_bitcoin
 bin_PROGRAMS += test/test_bitcoin
 TEST_SRCDIR = test