diff --git a/devtools/__init__.py b/devtools/__init__.py
index c944e7c..d18a521 100644
--- a/devtools/__init__.py
+++ b/devtools/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-# module
\ No newline at end of file
+# Copyright 2010 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
+# module
diff --git a/devtools/antglob.py b/devtools/antglob.py
index afd4c48..c272f66 100644
--- a/devtools/antglob.py
+++ b/devtools/antglob.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # encoding: utf-8
-# Baptiste Lepilleur, 2009
+# Copyright 2009 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 from dircache import listdir
diff --git a/devtools/fixeol.py b/devtools/fixeol.py
index a76880f..054eb9b 100644
--- a/devtools/fixeol.py
+++ b/devtools/fixeol.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2010 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 from __future__ import print_function
 import os.path
 
diff --git a/devtools/tarball.py b/devtools/tarball.py
index b2030fb..2e72717 100644
--- a/devtools/tarball.py
+++ b/devtools/tarball.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2010 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 from contextlib import closing
 import os
 import tarfile
diff --git a/makerelease.py b/makerelease.py
index b7235db..ea3722d 100644
--- a/makerelease.py
+++ b/makerelease.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2010 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 """Tag the sandbox for release, make source and doc tarballs.
 
 Requires Python 2.6
@@ -14,6 +19,7 @@ python makerelease.py 0.5.0 0.6.0-dev
 Note: This was for Subversion. Now that we are in GitHub, we do not
 need to build versioned tarballs anymore, so makerelease.py is defunct.
 """
+
 from __future__ import print_function
 import os.path
 import subprocess
diff --git a/scons-tools/globtool.py b/scons-tools/globtool.py
index ea7db2d..890f1b7 100644
--- a/scons-tools/globtool.py
+++ b/scons-tools/globtool.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2009 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 import fnmatch
 import os
 
diff --git a/scons-tools/srcdist.py b/scons-tools/srcdist.py
index 663a234..fe1d746 100644
--- a/scons-tools/srcdist.py
+++ b/scons-tools/srcdist.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2007 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 import os
 import os.path
 from fnmatch import fnmatch
diff --git a/scons-tools/substinfile.py b/scons-tools/substinfile.py
index 33e5de0..c620442 100644
--- a/scons-tools/substinfile.py
+++ b/scons-tools/substinfile.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2010 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 import re
 from SCons.Script import *  # the usual scons stuff you get in a SConscript
 import collections
diff --git a/scons-tools/targz.py b/scons-tools/targz.py
index 6a4f3fa..8e5ba83 100644
--- a/scons-tools/targz.py
+++ b/scons-tools/targz.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2007 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 """tarball
 
 Tool-specific initialization for tarball.
diff --git a/test/cleantests.py b/test/cleantests.py
index 1a4f1f1..9772d54 100644
--- a/test/cleantests.py
+++ b/test/cleantests.py
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-# removes all files created during testing
+# Copyright 2007 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
+"""Removes all files created during testing."""
+
 import glob
 import os
 
diff --git a/test/generate_expected.py b/test/generate_expected.py
index 2bbf569..0b74f51 100644
--- a/test/generate_expected.py
+++ b/test/generate_expected.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2007 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 from __future__ import print_function
 import glob
 import os.path
diff --git a/test/pyjsontestrunner.py b/test/pyjsontestrunner.py
index afaabd9..7f38356 100644
--- a/test/pyjsontestrunner.py
+++ b/test/pyjsontestrunner.py
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-# Simple implementation of a json test runner to run the test against json-py.
+# Copyright 2007 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
+"""Simple implementation of a json test runner to run the test against
+json-py."""
+
 from __future__ import print_function
 import sys
 import os.path
diff --git a/test/runjsontests.py b/test/runjsontests.py
index 597bf2f..d21c02f 100644
--- a/test/runjsontests.py
+++ b/test/runjsontests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2007 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 from __future__ import print_function
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from io import open
diff --git a/test/rununittests.py b/test/rununittests.py
index dd1c9a3..08850ec 100644
--- a/test/rununittests.py
+++ b/test/rununittests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2009 Baptiste Lepilleur
+# Distributed under MIT license, or public domain if desired and
+# recognized in your jurisdiction.
+# See file LICENSE for detail or copy at http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/LICENSE
+
 from __future__ import print_function
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from io import open