diff --git a/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test1.yaml b/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test1.yaml
index 97761f6c53..f3f5209873 100644
--- a/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test1.yaml
+++ b/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test1.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
 nodes:
     - id: cluster-1
       name: cluster-1
diff --git a/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_location.yaml b/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_location.yaml
index e5c4b590a4..09ba45a1b4 100644
--- a/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_location.yaml
+++ b/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_location.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
 nodes:
     - id: cluster-1
       name: cluster-1
diff --git a/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_with_url.yaml b/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_with_url.yaml
index ad348e6ad2..54d90476f6 100644
--- a/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_with_url.yaml
+++ b/apis/byon/src/test/resources/test_with_url.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
 nodes:
     - id: cluster-1
       name: cluster-1
diff --git a/apis/filesystem/src/test/resources/logging.properties b/apis/filesystem/src/test/resources/logging.properties
index f78dbde6eb..2b769837c2 100644
--- a/apis/filesystem/src/test/resources/logging.properties
+++ b/apis/filesystem/src/test/resources/logging.properties
@@ -1,8 +1,29 @@
-# Set the default logging level for all loggers to WARNING
-.level = INFO
-
-handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
-java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = ALL
-java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
-org.jclouds.filesystem.FilesystemAsyncBlobStore.level=ALL
-org.jclouds.filesystem.FilesystemAsyncBlobStore.handler=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+#
+#
+# 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.
+#
+#
+
+# Set the default logging level for all loggers to WARNING
+.level = INFO
+
+handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = ALL
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
+org.jclouds.filesystem.FilesystemAsyncBlobStore.level=ALL
+org.jclouds.filesystem.FilesystemAsyncBlobStore.handler=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
diff --git a/apis/rackspace-cloudloadbalancers/src/test/resources/errorpage.html b/apis/rackspace-cloudloadbalancers/src/test/resources/errorpage.html
index 7714e2f441..1cda45e1bc 100644
--- a/apis/rackspace-cloudloadbalancers/src/test/resources/errorpage.html
+++ b/apis/rackspace-cloudloadbalancers/src/test/resources/errorpage.html
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+<!--
+
+ 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.
+
+-->
+
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
 <html>
     <head>
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/META-INF/maven/org.apache.jclouds/jclouds-core/pom.properties b/core/src/test/resources/META-INF/maven/org.apache.jclouds/jclouds-core/pom.properties
index 29bd356786..131ca6ac6c 100644
--- a/core/src/test/resources/META-INF/maven/org.apache.jclouds/jclouds-core/pom.properties
+++ b/core/src/test/resources/META-INF/maven/org.apache.jclouds/jclouds-core/pom.properties
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+#
+#
+# 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.
+#
+#
+
 # Dummy pom.properties file for testing
 version=0.0.0-SNAPSHOT
 groupId=org.apache.jclouds
diff --git a/project/pom.xml b/project/pom.xml
index e1ece9065c..f60adb7d9b 100644
--- a/project/pom.xml
+++ b/project/pom.xml
@@ -367,7 +367,17 @@
         <configuration>
           <excludes>
             <!-- expectation files for unit tests -->
-            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**/*.sh</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**/*.bat</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**/*.cmd</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**/*.txt</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**/*.gz</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/src/test/resources/**/*.xml</exclude>
+            
+            <!-- META-INF/services files -->
+            <exclude>**/services/*LoggingModule</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/services/*ApiMetadata</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/services/*ProviderMetadata</exclude>
 
             <!-- prevent duplicating license -->
             <exclude>**/LICENSE.txt</exclude>
@@ -385,10 +395,9 @@
             <exclude>**/*json</exclude>
             <exclude>**/*readme</exclude>
 
-            <!-- one-line service registry files -->
-            <exclude>**/*ProviderMetadata</exclude>
-            <exclude>**/*ApiMetadata</exclude>
-            <exclude>**/*LoggingModule</exclude>
+            <!-- SSH keys -->
+            <exclude>**/test</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/test.pub</exclude>
 
             <!-- temporary files or those generated by IDE or SCM -->
             <exclude>**/target/**</exclude>
@@ -778,7 +787,7 @@
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.rat</groupId>
           <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
-          <version>0.8</version>
+          <version>0.9</version>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>