diff --git a/tools/copyright/copyright b/tools/copyright/copyright
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+// Copyright (c) 2017 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// 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
+//
+//    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.
diff --git a/tools/copyright/header-check.sh b/tools/copyright/header-check.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2016-2017 VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# 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
+#
+#    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.
+
+# Simple script that will check files of type .go, .sh, .bash or Makefile
+# for the copyright header.
+#
+# This will be called by the CI system (with no args) to perform checking and
+# fail the job if headers are not correctly set. It can also be called with the
+# 'fix' argument to automatically add headers to the missing files.
+#
+# Check if headers are fine:
+#   $ ./scripts/header-check.sh
+# Check and fix headers:
+#   All changes must be committed for fix to work
+#   $ ./scripts/header-check.sh fix
+
+set -e -o pipefail
+
+# These header variables MUST match the first two lines of the
+# VMware-copyright file in the scripts directory.
+#
+# These will be evaluated as a regex against the target file
+HEADER_OLD[1]="^\/\*$"
+HEADER_OLD[2]="^\s*Copyright \(c\) [0-9]{4} VMware, Inc\. All Rights Reserved\.$"
+
+HEADER_NEW[1]="^\/\/ Copyright \(c\) [0-9]{4} VMware, Inc\. All Rights Reserved\.$"
+HEADER_NEW[2]="^\/\/$"
+
+# Initialize vars
+ERR=false
+FAIL=false
+OLD_MATCHED=false
+
+all-files() {
+    git ls-files |\
+        # Check .go files, Makefile, sh files, bash files, and robot files
+        # grep -e "\.go$" -e "\.ts$" -e "\.css$" -e "Makefile$" -e "\.sh$" -e "\.bash$" -e "\.robot$" |\
+        grep -e "\.sh$" |\
+            # Ignore vendor/
+        grep -v vendor |\
+            # Ignore api test
+        grep -v apitests
+        # / |\
+        #     # Ignore files marked as deleted in git
+        # grep -v "$(git status -s | grep -e "^\sD" | cut -d' ' -f3)"
+}
+
+for file in $(all-files); do
+  ext=${file##*.}
+  if [[ $ext == "go" ]]; then
+    echo -n "Header check: $file... "
+    # get the file extension / type
+    OLD_MATCHED=false
+
+    # match the old style header
+    for count in $(seq 1 ${#HEADER_OLD[@]}); do
+      text=${HEADER_OLD[$count]}
+      if [[ "$increment" = true ]]; then
+        line=$((count + 1))
+      else
+        line=$count
+      fi
+      # do we have a header match?
+      if [[ $(sed ${line}q\;d ${file}) =~ ${text} ]]; then
+        OLD_MATCHED=true
+      fi
+    done
+
+    # add header if there isn't.
+    if [ $OLD_MATCHED == true ]; then
+      # is there is a fix argument and are all changes committed
+      if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
+        permissions=$(stat -f "%OLp" ${file})
+      else
+        permissions=$(stat --format '%a' ${file})
+      fi
+
+      # make it writable
+      chmod 755 ${file}
+
+      # remove the old header.
+      tail -n +15 ${file} > ${file}.new
+
+      mv ${file}.new ${file}
+
+      # make permissions the same
+      chmod $permissions ${file}
+      echo "$(tput -T xterm setaf 3)REMOVING OLD HEADER $(tput -T xterm sgr0)"
+    else
+      echo "$(tput -T xterm setaf 3)NO OLD HEADER $(tput -T xterm sgr0)"
+    fi
+  fi
+done
+
+sleep 2
+
+for file in $(all-files); do
+  echo -n "Header check: $file... "
+  # get the file extension / type
+  ext=${file##*.}
+
+  # increment line count in certain cases
+  increment=false
+
+  # should we be incrementing the line count
+  if [[ $ext == "sh" ]]; then
+    increment=true
+  fi
+
+  # match the new style header
+  for count in $(seq 1 ${#HEADER_NEW[@]}); do
+    text=${HEADER_NEW[$count]}
+
+    if [[ "$increment" = true ]]; then
+      line=$((count + 1))
+    else
+      line=$count
+    fi
+    # do we have a header match?
+    if [[ ! $(sed ${line}q\;d ${file}) =~ ${text} ]]; then
+      ERR=true
+    fi
+  done
+
+  # add header if there isn't.
+  if [ $ERR == true ]; then
+    # is there is a fix argument and are all changes committed
+    if [[ $# -gt 0 && $1 =~ [[:upper:]fix] ]]; then
+      if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
+        permissions=$(stat -f "%OLp" ${file})
+      else
+        permissions=$(stat --format '%a' ${file})
+      fi
+
+      # make it writable
+      chmod 755 ${file}
+
+      # based on file type fix the copyright
+      case "$ext" in
+        go)
+          cat ./tools/copyright/copyright ${file} > ${file}.new
+          ;;
+        ts)
+          cat ./tools/copyright/copyright ${file} > ${file}.new
+          ;;
+        sh)
+          head -1 ${file} > ${file}.new
+          cat ./tools/copyright/copyright | sed 's/\/\//\#/1' >> ${file}.new
+          tail -n +2 ${file} >> ${file}.new
+          ;;
+        *)
+          cat ./tools/copyright/copyright | sed 's/\/\//\#/1' > ${file}.new
+          cat ${file} >> ${file}.new
+          ;;
+      esac
+
+      mv ${file}.new ${file}
+
+      # make permissions the same
+      chmod $permissions ${file}
+
+      echo "$(tput -T xterm setaf 3)FIXING$(tput -T xterm sgr0)"
+      ERR=false
+    else
+      echo "$(tput -T xterm setaf 1)FAIL$(tput -T xterm sgr0)"
+      ERR=false
+      FAIL=true
+    fi
+  else
+    echo "$(tput -T xterm setaf 2)OK$(tput -T xterm sgr0)"
+  fi
+done
+
+# If we failed one check, return 1
+[ $FAIL == true ] && exit 1 || exit 0