diff --git a/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py b/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py
index 147dba20cd..fc01e570aa 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ def compile_copyright_regex(copyright_style, year_style, name):
 EXPECTED_HOLDER_NAMES = [
     "Satoshi Nakamoto\n",
     "The Bitcoin Core developers\n",
-    "Bitcoin Core Developers\n",
     "BitPay Inc\.\n",
     "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\.\n",
     "Pieter Wuille\n",
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/github-merge.py b/contrib/devtools/github-merge.py
index cd7a271e83..78ac671bfe 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/github-merge.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/github-merge.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-# Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Bitcoin Core Developers
+# Copyright (c) 2016-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
@@ -411,4 +411,3 @@ def main():
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()
-