diff --git a/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py b/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py
--- a/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py
@@ -101,24 +101,13 @@
 EXPECTED_HOLDER_NAMES = [
     r"Satoshi Nakamoto\n",
     r"The Bitcoin Core developers\n",
-    r"The Bitcoin Core developers \n",
     r"Bitcoin Core Developers\n",
-    r"the Bitcoin Core developers\n",
     r"The Bitcoin developers\n",
-    r"The LevelDB Authors\. All rights reserved\.\n",
     r"BitPay Inc\.\n",
-    r"BitPay, Inc\.\n",
     r"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\.\n",
-    r"MarcoFalke\n",
     r"Pieter Wuille\n",
-    r"Pieter Wuille +\*\n",
-    r"Pieter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell +\*\n",
-    r"Pieter Wuille, Andrew Poelstra +\*\n",
-    r"Andrew Poelstra +\*\n",
     r"Wladimir J. van der Laan\n",
     r"Jeff Garzik\n",
-    r"Diederik Huys, Pieter Wuille +\*\n",
-    r"Thomas Daede, Cory Fields +\*\n",
     r"Jan-Klaas Kollhof\n",
     r"Sam Rushing\n",
     r"ArtForz -- public domain half-a-node\n",