diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 1d81bc63b57..41cf81ad012 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10657. Have RetryInvocationHandler log failover attempt at INFO
     level. (Ming Ma via jing9)
 
+    HADOOP-10666. Remove Copyright /d/d/d/d Apache Software Foundation from
+    the source files license header. (Henry Saputra via wang)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.sh
index a5485255c73..f2643894082 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-env.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation
-# 
 # 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
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-policy.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-policy.xml
index ee9d70f99a7..39e4f4da25f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-policy.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/hadoop-policy.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
 <!--
-
- Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation
  
  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
index 8ef5eb4635b..ef9acbf13bd 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# Copyright 2011 The Apache Software Foundation
-# 
 # 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
diff --git a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/protoc/ProtocMojo.java b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/protoc/ProtocMojo.java
index bd62f55d191..86ba7bf5291 100644
--- a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/protoc/ProtocMojo.java
+++ b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/protoc/ProtocMojo.java
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
  * Licensed 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
diff --git a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/Exec.java b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/Exec.java
index 7dafe817bc3..45b40c21266 100644
--- a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/Exec.java
+++ b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/Exec.java
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
  * Licensed 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
diff --git a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/FileSetUtils.java b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/FileSetUtils.java
index 73f2ca6ddbd..6661f676dba 100644
--- a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/FileSetUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/util/FileSetUtils.java
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
  * Licensed 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
diff --git a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/versioninfo/VersionInfoMojo.java b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/versioninfo/VersionInfoMojo.java
index decd288a935..563bd5948a5 100644
--- a/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/versioninfo/VersionInfoMojo.java
+++ b/hadoop-maven-plugins/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/maven/plugin/versioninfo/VersionInfoMojo.java
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
  * Licensed 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
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml
index a5c44431810..f50ddddae72 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/resources/distcp-default.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
 <!--
-  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
-
   Licensed 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
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml
index 64485f11f87..42ee7ee9337 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/test/resources/sslConfig.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>
 <!--
-  Copyright 2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
-
   Licensed 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