diff --git a/patch.xml b/patch.xml
index f1ed219ad..7b7f8be6f 100644
--- a/patch.xml
+++ b/patch.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,24 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 
 <!--
-  =======================================================================
-   Use Apache Ant to generate a patch file for Apache Ant.
+   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
 
-   Copyright (c) 2003 The Apache Software Foundation.  All rights
-   reserved.
+       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.
+-->
+<!--
+  =======================================================================
+   Use Apache Ant to generate a patch file for Apache Ant.
   =======================================================================
 -->
 <project name="create-patch" default="patchpackage" basedir=".">
@@ -36,27 +48,6 @@
             <arg value="status"/>
         </exec>
         <replace file="${patch.file}.tmp" token="?      " value=""/>
-        <tstamp>
-            <format property="year" pattern="yyyy"/>
-        </tstamp>
-        <fileset dir="${basedir}"
-            includesfile="${patch.file}.tmp"
-            excludes="${patch.file}.tmp,${patch.file}"
-            id="no.copyright.set">
-            <not>
-                <and>
-                    <contains text="Copyright"/>
-                    <contains text="Apache Software Foundation"/>
-                    <contains text="${year}"/>
-                </and>
-            </not>
-        </fileset>
-        <pathconvert pathsep="${line.separator}"
-            setonempty="false"
-            property="no.copyright"
-            refid="no.copyright.set"/>
-        <fail if="no.copyright"
-            message="Please assign the Apache Ant Copyright (for ${year}) to these files and retry:${line.separator}${no.copyright}"/>
     </target>
 
     <target name="patchpackage" depends="newfiles">