diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b26eaab8ec1..df084a59b45 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-2115  ./hbase shell would not launch due to missing jruby dependency
                (Kay Kay via JD)
    HBASE-2101  KeyValueSortReducer collapses all values to last passed
+   HBASE-2119  Fix top-level NOTICES.txt file. Its stale.
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable
diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index 9e7dd1df4e6..68cbf65bac3 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -3,43 +3,6 @@ Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
 
 In addition, this product includes software developed by:
 
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 Facebook, Inc. (http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ -- Page includes the Thrift Software License)
 
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 JUnit (http://www.junit.org/)
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-The JSON jar source is here: http://www.json.org/java/index.html
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-Michael Gottesman developed AgileJSON.  Its source code is here:
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- http://github.com/gottesmm/agile-json-2.0/tree/master
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-It has this license at the head of the each source file:
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