diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 60bff994a..8a9446fb5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed 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.
+
 GO ?= go
 EPOCH_TEST_COMMIT ?= f2925f58acc259c4b894353f5fc404bdeb40028e
 PROJECT := github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd
@@ -25,7 +39,7 @@ ifndef GOPATH
 	$(error GOPATH is not set)
 endif
 
-verify: lint gofmt
+verify: lint gofmt boiler
 
 lint: check-gopath
 	@echo "checking lint"
@@ -35,6 +49,10 @@ gofmt:
 	@echo "checking gofmt"
 	@./hack/verify-gofmt.sh
 
+boiler:
+	@echo "checking boilerplate"
+	@./hack/repo-infra/verify/verify-boilerplate.sh
+
 cri-containerd: check-gopath
 	$(GO) build -o $(BUILD_DIR)/$@ \
 		$(PROJECT)/cmd/cri-containerd
@@ -72,6 +90,7 @@ install.tools: .install.gitvalidation .install.gometalinter
 
 .PHONY: \
 	binaries \
+	boiler \
 	clean \
 	default \
 	gofmt \
diff --git a/cmd/cri-containerd/cri_containerd.go b/cmd/cri-containerd/cri_containerd.go
index 8917af8aa..175341506 100644
--- a/cmd/cri-containerd/cri_containerd.go
+++ b/cmd/cri-containerd/cri_containerd.go
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/cmd/cri-containerd/options/options.go b/cmd/cri-containerd/options/options.go
index 7838f118e..6fa0c5b94 100644
--- a/cmd/cri-containerd/options/options.go
+++ b/cmd/cri-containerd/options/options.go
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+Copyright 2017 The Kubernetes Authors.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/hack/lint.sh b/hack/lint.sh
index 9b10f6883..4f3326ac1 100755
--- a/hack/lint.sh
+++ b/hack/lint.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # 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.#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# limitations under the License.
 
 set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
diff --git a/hack/repo-infra/verify/boilerplate/boilerplate.py b/hack/repo-infra/verify/boilerplate/boilerplate.py
index 3507c214c..8f60c8ae5 100755
--- a/hack/repo-infra/verify/boilerplate/boilerplate.py
+++ b/hack/repo-infra/verify/boilerplate/boilerplate.py
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ parser.add_argument(
     help="list of files to check, all files if unspecified",
     nargs='*')
 
-# Rootdir defaults to the directory **above** the repo-infra dir.
-rootdir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/../../../"
+# Rootdir defaults to the directory **above** the hack/repo-infra dir.
+rootdir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/../../../../"
 rootdir = os.path.abspath(rootdir)
 parser.add_argument(
     "--rootdir", default=rootdir, help="root directory to examine")
 
-default_boilerplate_dir = os.path.join(rootdir, "repo-infra/verify/boilerplate")
+default_boilerplate_dir = os.path.join(rootdir, "hack/repo-infra/verify/boilerplate")
 parser.add_argument(
     "--boilerplate-dir", default=default_boilerplate_dir)
 
@@ -131,9 +131,9 @@ def file_passes(filename, refs, regexs):
 def file_extension(filename):
     return os.path.splitext(filename)[1].split(".")[-1].lower()
 
-skipped_dirs = ['Godeps', 'third_party', '_gopath', '_output', '.git', 
+skipped_dirs = ['Godeps', 'third_party', '_gopath', '_output', '.git',
                 'cluster/env.sh', 'vendor', 'test/e2e/generated/bindata.go',
-                'repo-infra/verify/boilerplate/test', '.glide']
+                'hack/repo-infra/verify/boilerplate/test', '.glide']
 
 def normalize_files(files):
     newfiles = []