diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 34723e2..2d4828c 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
 }
 
 
-task srcDist(dependsOn: ["javadoc"], type: Zip) {
+task srcDist(type: Zip) {
     doFirst {
         platformProjects.collect { project ->
             project.tasks.clean.execute()
diff --git a/test-apps/custom-modules/README.txt b/test-apps/custom-modules/README.txt
index daa9e06..ac18153 100644
--- a/test-apps/custom-modules/README.txt
+++ b/test-apps/custom-modules/README.txt
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
+#   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.
+
 This project contains some custom modules used for testing independently from the project's classpath
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diff --git a/test-apps/twitter-adapter/README.txt b/test-apps/twitter-adapter/README.txt
index f9bda45..4d7ee93 100644
--- a/test-apps/twitter-adapter/README.txt
+++ b/test-apps/twitter-adapter/README.txt
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
+#   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.
+
 Please refer to README.txt in twitter-counter application
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diff --git a/test-apps/twitter-counter/README.txt b/test-apps/twitter-counter/README.txt
index 17eafb9..5752b21 100644
--- a/test-apps/twitter-counter/README.txt
+++ b/test-apps/twitter-counter/README.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+#   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.
+
 An application that displays the current top 10 topics, as gathered from the twitter sample stream.
 It was ported and adapted from S4 0.3
 
@@ -13,5 +28,4 @@
 
 How to run:
 
-Please follow the instructions in the S4 piper walkthrough at the following place:
-https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/S4/S4+piper+walkthrough
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+Please follow the instructions in the S4 piper walkthrough on the documentation from the website
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