diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index 91cbcafe79..0559dedf10 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -24,3 +24,7 @@ redhat/default
 test/data/serialization/*/*
 **/*.wpr
 conf/schema-sample.txt
+drivers/txpy/txcql/cassandra/*
+drivers/py/cql/cassandra/*
+doc/cql/CQL*
+build.properties.default
diff --git a/drivers/py/cqlsh b/drivers/py/cqlsh
index 32e6de2df9..4472f0e911 100755
--- a/drivers/py/cqlsh
+++ b/drivers/py/cqlsh
@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 from optparse import OptionParser
 from StringIO import StringIO
 
diff --git a/drivers/py/test/test_query_compression.py b/drivers/py/test/test_query_compression.py
index 79a38b644e..a0aff7155f 100644
--- a/drivers/py/test/test_query_compression.py
+++ b/drivers/py/test/test_query_compression.py
@@ -1,4 +1,20 @@
 
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 from os.path import abspath, exists, join, dirname
 
 if exists(join(abspath(dirname(__file__)), '..', 'cql')):
diff --git a/drivers/txpy/example.py b/drivers/txpy/example.py
index ab280fbba5..063f2a7147 100644
--- a/drivers/txpy/example.py
+++ b/drivers/txpy/example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
 from txcql.connection_pool import ConnectionPool
 from twisted.internet import defer, reactor
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql/Cql.g b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql/Cql.g
index 49ed489b2f..31caab8360 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql/Cql.g
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/cql/Cql.g
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+
+/*
+ * 
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ * 
+ */
+ 
 grammar Cql;
 
 options {