diff --git a/Build-tools/mysql-copyright b/Build-tools/mysql-copyright
index 1906675d470..f3a2a2960ea 100755
--- a/Build-tools/mysql-copyright
+++ b/Build-tools/mysql-copyright
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ sub main
       $newdistname .= $suffix if $win_flag;
     }
     # find out the extract path (should be same as distname!)
-    chomp($destdir= `tar ztf ../$distfile | head -1`);
+    chomp($destdir = `tar ztf ../$distfile | head -1`);
     # remove slash from the end
     $destdir= substr($destdir, 0, -1);
     
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ sub main
       chdir("$destdir");
       unlink ("configure") or die "Can't delete $destdir/configure: $!\n";
       open(CONFIGURE,"<configure.in") or die "$! Unable to open configure.in to read from!\n";
+      local $/;
       undef $/;
       my $configure = <CONFIGURE>;
       close(CONFIGURE);
@@ -150,13 +151,6 @@ sub main
         print "$! Unable to delete $dir!\n";
       }
     }
-    if (-e $opt_target) {
-      print "Trying to delete $opt_target\n" if $opt_verbose;
-      if ( system("rm -rf $opt_target")) {
-        print "$! Unable to delete $opt_target!\n";
-      }
-    }
-
   }
   exit(0);
 }  
@@ -165,14 +159,17 @@ sub main
 #### mysqld and MySQL client programs have a usage printed with --help.
 #### This usage includes a copyright, which needs to be modified
 ####
-
 sub fix_usage_copyright
 {
-  my @Cfiles = `find . -type f -name \"*.c*\"`;
-  foreach my $Cfile (@Cfiles)
+  my $findlist = `find . -type f -name \"*.c*\"`;
+  my @files = split("\n", $findlist);
+  my $cwd = getcwd();
+
+  foreach my $file (@files)
   {
-    chop $Cfile;
-    `replace "This is free software," "This is commercial software," "and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license" "please see the file MySQLEULA.txt for details" -- "$Cfile"` if -f $Cfile; 
+    next if ! -f $file;
+    print "processing file $file in cwd $cwd\n" if $opt_verbose;
+    `replace "This is free software," "This is commercial software," "and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license" "please see the file MySQLEULA.txt for details" -- "$file"` ;
   }
 }
 
@@ -182,12 +179,14 @@ sub fix_usage_copyright
 
 sub add_copyright
 {
-  my @files = `find . -type f -name "*"`;
+  my $findlist = `find . -type f -name "*"`;
+  my @files = split("\n", $findlist);
+  my $cwd = getcwd();
+
   foreach my $file (@files)
   {
-    chop $file;
     next if ! -f $file;
-    next if -B $file;
+    print "processing file $file in cwd $cwd\n" if $opt_verbose;
     `$WD/Build-tools/mysql-copyright-2 "$file"`;
   }
 }
diff --git a/Build-tools/mysql-copyright-2 b/Build-tools/mysql-copyright-2
index e946ed217d1..a1a870526da 100755
--- a/Build-tools/mysql-copyright-2
+++ b/Build-tools/mysql-copyright-2
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ sub add_copyright
   elsif ($ARGV =~ /\.c$/ ||
 	 $ARGV =~ /\.cc$/ ||
 	 $ARGV =~ /\.h$/ ||
+	 $ARGV =~ /\.cpp$/ ||
 	 $ARGV =~ /\.yy$/)
   {
     $start_copyright="/* ";