diff --git a/arrow/CONTRIBUTING.md b/arrow/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ff4389aa93af..843e1faf05e7 100644
--- a/arrow/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/arrow/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
-sfeatures
+<!---
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
 
 ## Developer's guide
 
diff --git a/parquet/CONTRIBUTING.md b/parquet/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 67cd9288db1c..834b6af9d4ef 100644
--- a/parquet/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/parquet/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+<!---
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+
 ## Build
 
 Run `cargo build` or `cargo build --release` to build in release mode.