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diff --git a/contrib/devtools/README.md b/contrib/devtools/README.md
index af5c000b0..60fe69e7e 100644
--- a/contrib/devtools/README.md
+++ b/contrib/devtools/README.md
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ would be changed to:
 
 ```// Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers```
 
+gen-manpages.sh
+===============
+
+A small script to automatically create manpages in ../../doc/man by running the release binaries with the -help option.
+This requires help2man which can be found at: https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/
+
 git-subtree-check.sh
 ====================
 
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..967717e1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+TOPDIR=${TOPDIR:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}
+SRCDIR=${SRCDIR:-$TOPDIR/src}
+MANDIR=${MANDIR:-$TOPDIR/doc/man}
+
+BITCOIND=${BITCOIND:-$SRCDIR/bitcoind}
+BITCOINCLI=${BITCOINCLI:-$SRCDIR/bitcoin-cli}
+BITCOINTX=${BITCOINTX:-$SRCDIR/bitcoin-tx}
+BITCOINQT=${BITCOINQT:-$SRCDIR/qt/bitcoin-qt}
+
+[ ! -x $BITCOIND ] && echo "$BITCOIND not found or not executable." && exit 1
+
+# The autodetected version git tag can screw up manpage output a little bit
+BTCVER=($($BITCOINCLI --version | head -n1 | awk -F'[ -]' '{ print $6, $7 }'))
+
+# Create a footer file with copyright content.
+# This gets autodetected fine for bitcoind if --version-string is not set,
+# but has different outcomes for bitcoin-qt and bitcoin-cli.
+echo "[COPYRIGHT]" > footer.h2m
+$BITCOIND --version | sed -n '1!p' >> footer.h2m
+
+for cmd in $BITCOIND $BITCOINCLI $BITCOINTX $BITCOINQT; do
+  cmdname="${cmd##*/}"
+  help2man -N --version-string=${BTCVER[0]} --include=footer.h2m -o ${MANDIR}/${cmdname}.1 ${cmd}
+  sed -i "s/\\\-${BTCVER[1]}//g" ${MANDIR}/${cmdname}.1
+done
+
+rm -f footer.h2m
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/optimize-pngs.py b/contrib/devtools/optimize-pngs.py
index 799e0cc7d..b7b8dc008 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/optimize-pngs.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/optimize-pngs.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2014-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 '''
 Run this script every time you change one of the png files. Using pngcrush, it will optimize the png files, remove various color profiles, remove ancillary chunks (alla) and text chunks (text).
 #pngcrush -brute -ow -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB -rem alla -rem text
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/security-check.py b/contrib/devtools/security-check.py
index c61d65264..b4b4b4603 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/security-check.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/security-check.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 '''
 Perform basic ELF security checks on a series of executables.
 Exit status will be 0 if successful, and the program will be silent.
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py b/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py
index 324b7bcd8..c0f120392 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/test-security-check.py
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python2
+# Copyright (c) 2015-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 '''
 Test script for security-check.py
 '''