diff --git a/app-office/lyx/lyx-2.1.3.recipe b/app-office/lyx/lyx-2.1.3.recipe
index 938686cd1..caa233c7c 100644
--- a/app-office/lyx/lyx-2.1.3.recipe
+++ b/app-office/lyx/lyx-2.1.3.recipe
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ PDF, just as readily produced - looks like nothing else."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.lyx.org"
 REVISION="1"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright the lyx community"
+COPYRIGHT="the lyx community"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
 
diff --git a/app-shells/dash/dash-0.5.7.recipe b/app-shells/dash/dash-0.5.7.recipe
index 5422d02ec..0ac9d3338 100644
--- a/app-shells/dash/dash-0.5.7.recipe
+++ b/app-shells/dash/dash-0.5.7.recipe
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ SRC_URI="http://gondor.apana.org/~herbert/dash/files/dash-0.5.7.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="ae89fa9f1145b7748cf0740e1df04cd52fdf8a285da4911dd0f04983efba4e39"
 REVISION="2"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 1989-1994 The Regents of the University of California. 1997 Christos Zoulas. 1997-2005 Herbert Xu."
+COPYRIGHT="1989-1994 The Regents of the University of California
+	1997 Christos Zoulas
+	1997-2005 Herbert Xu"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 
diff --git a/app-text/gpp/gpp-2.4.recipe b/app-text/gpp/gpp-2.4.recipe
index 04c2d7d13..961284dc0 100644
--- a/app-text/gpp/gpp-2.4.recipe
+++ b/app-text/gpp/gpp-2.4.recipe
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ GPP is a general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax, suitable for a \
 wide range of preprocessing tasks. Its independence from any programming \
 language makes it much more versatile than cpp, while its syntax is lighter \
 and more flexible than that of m4.
-" 
-HOMEPAGE="http://files.nothingisreal.com/software/gpp/gpp.html" 
+"
+HOMEPAGE="http://files.nothingisreal.com/software/gpp/gpp.html"
 SRC_URI="http://files.nothingisreal.com/software/gpp/gpp-2.24.tar.bz2"
 REVISION="1"
 STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ BUILD()
 	aclocal
 	automake --add-missing -Wnone
 	autoconf
-	./configure --prefix=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY` 
+	./configure --prefix=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY`
 	make
 }
 
@@ -28,4 +28,5 @@ INSTALL()
 }
 
 LICENSE="GPP"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 1996–2001 Denis Auroux. Copyright 2003, 2004 Tristan Miller."
+COPYRIGHT="1996–2001 Denis Auroux
+	2003-2004 Tristan Miller"
diff --git a/app-text/texlive/texlive-2014.recipe b/app-text/texlive/texlive-2014.recipe
index 2119114a8..b7164788b 100644
--- a/app-text/texlive/texlive-2014.recipe
+++ b/app-text/texlive/texlive-2014.recipe
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ comprehensive TeX system. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro
 that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.
 "
 HOMEPAGE="http://tug.org/texlive/"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 1996 by collaboration between the TeX user groups."
+COPYRIGHT="1996 by collaboration between the TeX user groups."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 SRC_URI="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2014/texlive-20140525-source.tar.xz"
 SRC_URI_2="ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2014/texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz"
@@ -610,14 +610,14 @@ BUILD()
 {
 	# disable the install-bin-links target
 	sed -i -e 's/!WIN32/WIN32/g' am/bin_links.am
-	
+
 	libtoolize --force --copy --install
 	autoreconf
 	mkdir -p ../build && cd ../build
-	
+
 	# may need to run this super early to ensure everything gets the right value...
 	fixKSearchPaths
-	
+
 	# don't use secondary arch bindir
 	runConfigure --omit-buildspec --omit-dirs "binDir sbinDir" $sourceDir/configure \
 		--bindir=$prefix/bin --sbindir=$prefix/bin --disable-native-texlive-build --disable-cxx-runtime-hack \
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ I
 	# somewhere along the way, a texmf.cnf gets created with ALL the wrong paths...
 	# replace it with the known working version
 	cp -f $dataDir/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf $dataDir/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf
-	
+
 	# some reason, this doesn't get created, which we need
 	if [ ! -e $prefix/bin/mktexfmt ] ; then
 		ln -s $prefix/bin/fmtutil $prefix/bin/mktexfmt
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ I
 	# devel package
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir
-	
+
 	exit 1
 }
 
diff --git a/dev-python/mako/python3_mako-1.0.1.recipe b/dev-python/mako/python3_mako-1.0.1.recipe
index 746f3053c..6f2594bd4 100644
--- a/dev-python/mako/python3_mako-1.0.1.recipe
+++ b/dev-python/mako/python3_mako-1.0.1.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.makotemplates.org"
 SRC_URI="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/Mako/Mako-1.0.1.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="45f0869febea59dab7efd256fb451c377cbb7947bef386ff0bb44627c31a8d1c"
 LICENSE="MIT"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2006-2015 the Mako authors and contributors"
+COPYRIGHT="2006-2015 the Mako authors and contributors"
 REVISION="1"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="arm ppc x86 x86_gcc2 x86_64"
diff --git a/dev-python/mako/python_mako-1.0.1.recipe b/dev-python/mako/python_mako-1.0.1.recipe
index 3b521a4c6..6af21e514 100644
--- a/dev-python/mako/python_mako-1.0.1.recipe
+++ b/dev-python/mako/python_mako-1.0.1.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.makotemplates.org"
 SRC_URI="https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/Mako/Mako-1.0.1.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="45f0869febea59dab7efd256fb451c377cbb7947bef386ff0bb44627c31a8d1c"
 LICENSE="MIT"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2006-2015 the Mako authors and contributors"
+COPYRIGHT="2006-2015 the Mako authors and contributors"
 REVISION="2"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="arm ppc x86 x86_gcc2 x86_64"
diff --git a/dev-util/indent/indent-2.2.10.recipe b/dev-util/indent/indent-2.2.10.recipe
index ea60149ba..652f3a692 100644
--- a/dev-util/indent/indent-2.2.10.recipe
+++ b/dev-util/indent/indent-2.2.10.recipe
@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/indent/"
 REVISION="2"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 Carlo Wood.  All rights reserved. 
-	Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997 Joseph Arceneaux.  All rights reserved.
-	Copyright (c) 1992, 2002, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
-	Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
-	Copyright (c) 1976 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved.
-	Copyright (c) 1985 Sun Microsystems, Inc.1998-2000 The Santa Cruz Operation
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2000 Carlo Wood
+	1994, 1996-1997 Joseph Arceneaux
+	1992, 2002, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+	1980 The Regents of the University of California
+	1976 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
+	1985 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+	1998-2000 The Santa Cruz Operation
 	"
 
 SRC_URI="http://mirror.keystealth.org/gnu/indent/indent-2.2.10.tar.gz"
diff --git a/games-action/maelstrom/maelstrom-3.0.6.recipe b/games-action/maelstrom/maelstrom-3.0.6.recipe
index 8af9c3d85..049e89e64 100644
--- a/games-action/maelstrom/maelstrom-3.0.6.recipe
+++ b/games-action/maelstrom/maelstrom-3.0.6.recipe
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ full thrusters to dodge the latest barrage you begin to think you'll never get
 home...
 "
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1996-2005 Sam Lantinga"
+COPYRIGHT="1996-2005 Sam Lantinga"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 SRC_URI="http://www.libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom/src/Maelstrom-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="e7983c2c7376cdcca1944db1706d92aedd529638cf13358c88a60df982ba7b46"
diff --git a/games-action/quake3/quake3-0.6.1.recipe b/games-action/quake3/quake3-0.6.1.recipe
index 3146395b3..e6cece5b0 100644
--- a/games-action/quake3/quake3-0.6.1.recipe
+++ b/games-action/quake3/quake3-0.6.1.recipe
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ version requires a valid Quake 3 license code and the original Quake 3 CD \
 you have).
 "
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.idsoftware.com"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Id Software, Inc."
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2005 Id Software, Inc."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/kallisti5/quake3/archive/$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="755fc8ea237bd6f296764c7e2ea84638797ec6ffd88a9e17a486a8ee1c666a95"
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ BUILD()
 INSTALL()
 {
 	mkdir -p $appsDir
-	
+
 	cp $(find code/beos/* -name 'Quake3') $appsDir/
 	addAppDeskbarSymlink $appsDir/Quake3
 }
diff --git a/games-arcade/edgar/edgar-1.16_1.recipe b/games-arcade/edgar/edgar-1.16_1.recipe
index 473ac9dd8..239a3dfc9 100644
--- a/games-arcade/edgar/edgar-1.16_1.recipe
+++ b/games-arcade/edgar/edgar-1.16_1.recipe
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ beyond the forbidden swamp. Donning his armour, Edgar sets off to rescue him, \
 but his quest will not be easy..."
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/p/legend-of-edgar.html"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Parallel Realities"
+COPYRIGHT="2009-2014 Parallel Realities"
 SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/legendofedgar/files/1.16/edgar-1.16-1.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="33884b1adb09f826dbe653ea19004bd0c11baf4f25651c4e49f05d2def5dc8f4"
 REVISION="1"
@@ -61,6 +61,6 @@ INSTALL()
 	installDir=$appsDir/"Edgar/"
 	mkdir -p "$installDir"
 	make install DESTDIR="$installDir" BIN_DIR="$installDir" DATA_DIR="$installDir"games/edgar/
-	
+
 	addAppDeskbarSymlink $appsDir/Edgar/edgar Edgar
 }
diff --git a/haiku-apps/doctranslator/doctranslator-0.1.0.recipe b/haiku-apps/doctranslator/doctranslator-0.1.0.recipe
index e437a87f0..a4aa08a19 100644
--- a/haiku-apps/doctranslator/doctranslator-0.1.0.recipe
+++ b/haiku-apps/doctranslator/doctranslator-0.1.0.recipe
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SOURCE_DIR="DOCTranslator-7b8fa2b6d0ce027ce9e9b03cbdc21016190436de"
 
 REVISION="2"
 LICENSE="MIT"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (c) 2014 Markus Himmel"
+COPYRIGHT="2014 Markus Himmel"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2"
 
diff --git a/haiku-apps/netpulse/netpulse-0.2.3.recipe b/haiku-apps/netpulse/netpulse-0.2.3.recipe
index 558be6804..b334b1427 100644
--- a/haiku-apps/netpulse/netpulse-0.2.3.recipe
+++ b/haiku-apps/netpulse/netpulse-0.2.3.recipe
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 	"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/HaikuArchives/NetPulse"
 SRC_URI="git://github.com/HaikuArchives/NetPulse#49ad32dbf20370f3701a8b342d5fc785dd6c403d"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2001 Carlos Hasan"
+COPYRIGHT="2001 Carlos Hasan"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 REVISION="4"
 
diff --git a/haiku-apps/pecorename/pecorename-1.5.recipe b/haiku-apps/pecorename/pecorename-1.5.recipe
index edda66da8..ace336d73 100644
--- a/haiku-apps/pecorename/pecorename-1.5.recipe
+++ b/haiku-apps/pecorename/pecorename-1.5.recipe
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ You can rename your files in many different ways:
  * Make uppercase/lowercase
  * Add the suitable file extension according to the file type
  * Insert, append or replace text...
- 
+
 PecoRename gives you an easy to use interface with a powerful tool behind it.\
 The changes can be previewed in realtime.
 And - of course - all functions support special chars (like ä, â...).
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ program!
 	"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.maybe.de/software/pecorename"
 SRC_URI="git://github.com/HaikuArchives/PecoRename#ac7e6b511b1a24866e4a34fa170023e9a89448fb"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2008 Werner Freytag"
+COPYRIGHT="2008 Werner Freytag"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 REVISION="3"
 
diff --git a/haiku-apps/timecop/timecop-0.61.recipe b/haiku-apps/timecop/timecop-0.61.recipe
index ebf4e3877..ff0494a20 100644
--- a/haiku-apps/timecop/timecop-0.61.recipe
+++ b/haiku-apps/timecop/timecop-0.61.recipe
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.augusta.de/michael/BeOS/TimeCop/index.us.html"
 SRC_URI="git://github.com/HaikuArchives/TimeCop.git#ee79c42895"
 REVISION="2"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright Michael Pieper"
+COPYRIGHT="Michael Pieper"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 !ppc"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="d384c22c8768298fb1d9ea60fbdb8e7f7e440c00bae44c37e7507f20c4fe6a94"
 
 REQUIRES="
-	haiku 
+	haiku
 	"
 PROVIDES="
 	cmd:TimeCop_daemon = $portVersion
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ INSTALL()
 	mkdir -p $appsDir
 	cp -a $sourceDir/bin/TimeCop_daemon $binDir/TimeCop_daemon
 	cp -a $sourceDir/bin/TimeCop $appsDir/TimeCop
-	
+
 	addAppDeskbarSymlink $appsDir/TimeCop
 }
diff --git a/haiku-libs/ale/ale-0.9.1.recipe b/haiku-libs/ale/ale-0.9.1.recipe
index 305797a87..ee4280465 100644
--- a/haiku-libs/ale/ale-0.9.1.recipe
+++ b/haiku-libs/ale/ale-0.9.1.recipe
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ CHECKSUM_SHA256="cda6bc713485c058b326bc79231a99c24abad36e7d0b68a9cbbc2b292092e68
 SRC_FILENAME="ALEditor-52a5a621e3c28fc04d46402fae263b9693bd68ab.tar.gz"
 SOURCE_DIR="ALEditor-$srcGitRef"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/czeidler/ALEditor/archive/$srcGitRef.tar.gz"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2009-2014 by UniAuckland Team"
+COPYRIGHT="2009-2014 UniAuckland Team"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 REVISION="2"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_gcc2 x86_64"
@@ -55,32 +55,32 @@ INSTALL()
 	cp ALEditor $appsDir/ALEditor/ALEditor
 	mkdir -p $libDir
 	cp libale.so $libDir/libale.so
-	
+
 	addAppDeskbarSymlink $appsDir/ALEditor/ALEditor ALEditor
-	
+
 	# copy development headers
 	headersALE="LayoutArchive.h"
 	headersALM="ALMGroup.h ALMLayout.h ALMLayoutBuilder.h Area.h Column.h Row.h Tab.h"
 	headersLinearSpec="Constraint.h LinearProgrammingTypes.h LinearSpec.h Summand.h Variable.h"
-	
+
 	mkdir -p $includeDir/ale
 	for file in $headersALE
 	do
 	cp headers/editor/${file} $includeDir/ale/${file}
 	done
-	
+
 	mkdir -p $includeDir/alm
 	for file in $headersALM
 	do
 	cp headers/haiku_private/alm/${file} $includeDir/alm/${file}
 	done
-	
+
 	mkdir -p $includeDir/linearspec
 	for file in $headersLinearSpec
 	do
 	cp headers/haiku_private/linearspec/${file} $includeDir/linearspec/${file}
 	done
-	
+
 	# copy example
 	mkdir -p $dataDir/ale/example
 	cp example/* $dataDir/ale/example/
diff --git a/media-gfx/fontforge/fontforge-20141126.recipe b/media-gfx/fontforge/fontforge-20141126.recipe
index 729a75e09..9328d0da4 100644
--- a/media-gfx/fontforge/fontforge-20141126.recipe
+++ b/media-gfx/fontforge/fontforge-20141126.recipe
@@ -3,10 +3,8 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 An outline font editor that lets you create your own OpenType, TrueType, CID-keyed, multi-master
 fonts and more... or simply edit existing ones."
 HOMEPAGE="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net"
-COPYRIGHT="
-	Copyright 2000-2012, George Williams
-	The FontForge Project
-"
+COPYRIGHT="2000-2012 George Williams
+	The FontForge Project"
 LICENSE="BSD (3-clause)"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/$portVersion/fontforge-2014-11-26-Unix-Source.tar.gz"
 SRC_FILENAME="fontforge-$portVersion.tar.gz"
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ REQUIRES="
 	lib:libtiff$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
-	
+
 	lib:libbz2$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libintl$secondaryArchSuffix
 	lib:libiconv$secondaryArchSuffix
@@ -87,7 +85,7 @@ BUILD()
 INSTALL()
 {
 	make install
-	
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libfontforge libfontforgeexe \
 		libgioftp libgunicode libgutils
 	fixPkgconfig
diff --git a/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.2.4.recipe b/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.2.4.recipe
index f02d01e43..95ab2e8fb 100644
--- a/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.2.4.recipe
+++ b/media-gfx/graphite2/graphite2-1.2.4.recipe
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 Graphite2 is a library providing rendering capabilities for complex non-Roman \
 writing systems."
 HOMEPAGE="http://graphite.sil.org"
-COPYRIGHT="
-	Copyright 2010-2013, SIL International
-"
+COPYRIGHT="2010-2013 SIL International"
 LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2.1"
 #SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/silgraphite/files/graphite2/graphite2-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI="http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/graphite2-$portVersion.tgz"
@@ -49,7 +47,7 @@ BUILD()
 INSTALL()
 {
 	make install
-	
+
 	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libgraphite2
 	fixPkgconfig
 
diff --git a/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4.recipe b/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4.recipe
index bdf844721..9faf63c81 100644
--- a/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/a52dec/a52dec-0.7.4.recipe
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ SUMMARY="A ATSC A/52 decoding library used on streams in DVD's"
 DESCRIPTION="
 A library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD's.
 "
-HOMEPAGE="http://liba52.sourceforge.net/" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://liba52.sourceforge.net/"
 SRC_URI="http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="a21d724ab3b3933330194353687df82c475b5dfb997513eef4c25de6c865ec33"
 REVISION="2"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Aaron Holtzman and Michel Lespinasse"
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2002 Aaron Holtzman & Michel Lespinasse"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:autoconf
 	cmd:autoreconf
 	"
-	
+
 BUILD()
 {
 	autoreconf -fi
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ BUILD()
 INSTALL()
 {
 	make install
-	
+
 	if [ -n "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
 		rm -rf $binDir
 	fi
diff --git a/media-libs/faac/faac-1.28.recipe b/media-libs/faac/faac-1.28.recipe
index 3a30f1ed2..fec5174c4 100644
--- a/media-libs/faac/faac-1.28.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/faac/faac-1.28.recipe
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ REVISION="2"
 
 LICENSE="FAAC
 	GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2003 Krzysztof Nikiel"
+COPYRIGHT="2003 Krzysztof Nikiel"
 
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86 x86_64"
 SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86"
diff --git a/media-libs/ladspa_sdk/ladspa_sdk-1.13.recipe b/media-libs/ladspa_sdk/ladspa_sdk-1.13.recipe
index 39bd1ae7f..f2a755fa6 100644
--- a/media-libs/ladspa_sdk/ladspa_sdk-1.13.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/ladspa_sdk/ladspa_sdk-1.13.recipe
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 DESCRIPTION="Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.ladspa.org/" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.ladspa.org/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.ladspa.org/download/ladspa_sdk_1.13.tgz"
 STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Richard W.E. Furse, Paul Barton-Davis, Stefan Westerfeld."
+COPYRIGHT="2000-2002 Richard W.E. Furse, Paul Barton-Davis, Stefan Westerfeld."
 LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2.1"
 REVISION="1"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="671be3e1021d0722cadc7fb27054628e"
diff --git a/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.2.12.recipe b/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.2.12.recipe
index 756d52e3d..eb7df292c 100644
--- a/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.2.12.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.2.12.recipe
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device \
 without having to bother about the decryption.
 "
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1998-2008 VideoLAN"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2008 VideoLAN"
 SRC_URI="http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.12/libdvdcss-1.2.12.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="72465395d494f609b180cab23f9679acf6083fb821bd84979a8e70f7b795db5d"
 REVISION="2"
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir
-} 
+}
 
 # ----- devel package -------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.3.0.recipe b/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.3.0.recipe
index 686955787..0455bd363 100644
--- a/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.3.0.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/libdvdcss/libdvdcss-1.3.0.recipe
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 libdvdcss is a simple library designed for accessing DVDs like a block device \
 without having to bother about the decryption.
 "
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1998-2008 VideoLAN"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2008 VideoLAN"
 SRC_URI="http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/$portVersion/libdvdcss-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="7c414acd520c4e4dd7267952f72d738ff50321a7869af4d75c65aefad44f1395"
 REVISION="1"
diff --git a/media-libs/libmkv/libmkv-0.6.5.1.recipe b/media-libs/libmkv/libmkv-0.6.5.1.recipe
index cb77b7182..caba0a9ca 100644
--- a/media-libs/libmkv/libmkv-0.6.5.1.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/libmkv/libmkv-0.6.5.1.recipe
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 A lightweight Matroska muxer written for HandBrake.
 "
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/saintdev/libmkv"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2007 libmkv"
+COPYRIGHT="2007 libmkv"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/saintdev/libmkv/archive/$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="41f08a08bab354f9834fda1dcdd1dcf4a0c67ad18021eb980f808654464cef00"
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ BUILD()
 INSTALL()
 {
 	make install
-	
+
 	rm $libDir/libmkv.la
 
 	# prepare develop/lib
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir
-} 
+}
 
 # ----- devel package -------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/media-libs/libmp4v2/libmp4v2-2.0.0.recipe b/media-libs/libmp4v2/libmp4v2-2.0.0.recipe
index 39d214ed5..da4bf6556 100644
--- a/media-libs/libmp4v2/libmp4v2-2.0.0.recipe
+++ b/media-libs/libmp4v2/libmp4v2-2.0.0.recipe
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ SUMMARY="A library that provides functions to read, create, and modify mp4 files
 DESCRIPTION="
 A library that provides functions to read, create, and modify mp4 files.
 "
-HOMEPAGE="https://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/" 
+HOMEPAGE="https://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/"
 LICENSE="MPL v1.1"
-COPYRIGHT="Kona Blend, Copyright (C) 2008."
+COPYRIGHT="2008 Kona Blend"
 SRC_URI="https://mp4v2.googlecode.com/files/mp4v2-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="0319b9a60b667cf10ee0ec7505eb7bdc0a2e21ca7a93db96ec5bd758e3428338"
 REVISION="2"
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	packageEntries devel \
 		$developDir
-} 
+}
 
 # ----- devel package -------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/net-libs/libyahoo2/libyahoo2-1.0.1.recipe b/net-libs/libyahoo2/libyahoo2-1.0.1.recipe
index 5dc193452..a718900b4 100644
--- a/net-libs/libyahoo2/libyahoo2-1.0.1.recipe
+++ b/net-libs/libyahoo2/libyahoo2-1.0.1.recipe
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ INSTALL()
 	make install
 }
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2002-2010 The libyahoo2 Project Authors and Contributors"
+COPYRIGHT="2002-2010 The libyahoo2 Project Authors and Contributors"
diff --git a/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4.recipe b/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4.recipe
index 9664ee0ca..93bbd371a 100644
--- a/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4.recipe
+++ b/sys-apps/mawk/mawk-1.3.4.recipe
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-SUMMARY="A pattern scanning and processing language" 
+SUMMARY="A pattern scanning and processing language"
 DESCRIPTION="
-If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make \ 
+If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make \
 changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or \
 extract data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest. To \
 write a program to do this in a language such as C or Pascal is a \
@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ The awk utility interprets a special-purpose programming language that \
 makes it possible to handle simple data-reformatting jobs with just a \
 few lines of code.
 "
-HOMEPAGE="http://invisible-island.net/mawk" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://invisible-island.net/mawk"
 SRC_URI="http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/mawk.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="efa092ec3ea5dfd54571e8ba3b0327073f1fa51b8efa0953c2cadd87a87389c8"
 REVISION="1"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2009-2013,2014 by Thomas E. Dickey"
+COPYRIGHT="2009-2014 Thomas E. Dickey"
 ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64 arm ppc"
 
 SOURCE_DIR="mawk-1.3.4-20141206"
diff --git a/sys-devel/distcc/distcc-3.1.recipe b/sys-devel/distcc/distcc-3.1.recipe
index a93636a43..b6a477a37 100644
--- a/sys-devel/distcc/distcc-3.1.recipe
+++ b/sys-devel/distcc/distcc-3.1.recipe
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY="Distribute compilation of C code across several machines on a network"
 HOMEPAGE="http://distcc.org/"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 by Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
-    Portions Copyright 2005 Google Inc."
+COPYRIGHT="2002-2004 by Martin Pool
+    2005 Google Inc."
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 SRC_URI="http://distcc.googlecode.com/files/distcc-3.1.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="f55dbafd76bed3ce57e1bbcdab1329227808890d90f4c724fcd2d53f934ddd89"
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective \
 C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate \
 the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is \
 usually much faster than a local compile.
-	
+
 distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized \
 clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files installed. They can even \
 have different processors or operating systems, if cross-compilers are \
diff --git a/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-1.9.0.recipe b/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-1.9.0.recipe
index f501bccd7..28ab4a6b5 100644
--- a/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-1.9.0.recipe
+++ b/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-1.9.0.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of Open\
 Watcom."
 HOMEPAGE="http://openwatcom.org"
 LICENSE="Open Watcom Public Licence v1.0"
-COPYRIGHT="Portions Copyright (c) 1983-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
+COPYRIGHT="1983-2002 Sybase, Inc."
 REVISION="1"
 
 ARCHITECTURES=""
diff --git a/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-2.0.0.recipe b/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-2.0.0.recipe
index 4e8c22421..ba422c075 100644
--- a/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-2.0.0.recipe
+++ b/sys-devel/openwatcom/openwatcom-2.0.0.recipe
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of Open\
 Watcom."
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2"
 LICENSE="Open Watcom Public Licence v1.0"
-COPYRIGHT="Portions Copyright (c) 1983-2002 Sybase, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
+COPYRIGHT="1983-2002 Sybase, Inc."
 REVISION="1"
 
 ARCHITECTURES=""
diff --git a/sys-fs/ssh-fuse/sshfs_fuse-2.5.recipe b/sys-fs/ssh-fuse/sshfs_fuse-2.5.recipe
index 6aaf9203b..6117cbf6b 100644
--- a/sys-fs/ssh-fuse/sshfs_fuse-2.5.recipe
+++ b/sys-fs/ssh-fuse/sshfs_fuse-2.5.recipe
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ mount -t userlandfs -o 'sshfs user@server:./ -o password_stdin' /mnt
 HOMEPAGE="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html"
 SRC_URI="http://cznic.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fuse/sshfs-fuse/$portVersion/sshfs-fuse-$portVersion.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="e9171452e5d0150b9c6a2158fd2e2dcefb5d5d03ba4d208949e00a3a46c6e63e"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2004-2012, Miklos Seredi"
+COPYRIGHT="2004-2012 Miklos Seredi"
 LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
 REVISION="1"
 
diff --git a/sys-libs/glu/glu-9.0.0.recipe b/sys-libs/glu/glu-9.0.0.recipe
index c6ea01cee..793f1925e 100644
--- a/sys-libs/glu/glu-9.0.0.recipe
+++ b/sys-libs/glu/glu-9.0.0.recipe
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="
 OpenGL Utility Library.
 "
 HOMEPAGE="http://freedesktop.org"
-COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Brian Paul and others.  All Rights Reserved."
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2012 Brian Paul and others"
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SRC_URI="ftp://freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/glu-9.0.0.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="4387476a1933f36fec1531178ea204057bbeb04cc2d8396c9ea32720a1f7e264"
diff --git a/x11-libs/xtrans/xtrans-1.2.5.recipe b/x11-libs/xtrans/xtrans-1.2.5.recipe
index 1864a6f7c..9c6ce628c 100644
--- a/x11-libs/xtrans/xtrans-1.2.5.recipe
+++ b/x11-libs/xtrans/xtrans-1.2.5.recipe
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ SUMMARY="xtrans"
 DESCRIPTION="
 xtrans.
 "
-HOMEPAGE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/"
 SRC_URI="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/xtrans-1.2.5.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="97d76ab76c755fabf2ef1896aaa76c0e38fc58d92799f9b2dd885a535cdd1e2b"
 REVISION="1"
 COPYRIGHT="1993, 1994, 1998  The Open Group
-	1993, 1994 NCR Corporation - Dayton, Ohio, USA
-	2002, 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
-	Copyright 1996 by Sebastien Marineau and Holger Veit
+	1993, 1994 NCR Corporation
+	2002, 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+	1996 Sebastien Marineau, Holger Veit
 	2003 Keith Packard, Noah Levitt"
 LICENSE="MIT (no promotion)"