diff --git a/LICENSE-MIT b/LICENSE-MIT
index 39d4bdb5acd..31aa79387f2 100644
--- a/LICENSE-MIT
+++ b/LICENSE-MIT
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-Copyright (c) 2014 The Rust Project Developers
-
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any
 person obtaining a copy of this software and associated
 documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the
diff --git a/src/cargo/util/lev_distance.rs b/src/cargo/util/lev_distance.rs
index 4ae55a9ebc7..d55a3443a54 100644
--- a/src/cargo/util/lev_distance.rs
+++ b/src/cargo/util/lev_distance.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
-// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
-// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
-// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
-// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
-// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
-// except according to those terms.
-
 use std::cmp;
 
 pub fn lev_distance(me: &str, t: &str) -> usize {