diff --git a/pkg/patterns/application/doc.go b/pkg/patterns/application/doc.go
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-/*
-Copyright 2018 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.
-*/
-
-// Package application documents patterns for building Controllers to manage specific applications.
-//
-// An application is a Controller and Resource that together implement the operational logic for an application.
-// They are often used to take off-the-shelf OSS applications, and make them Kubernetes native.
-//
-// A typical application Controller may use builder.ControllerManagedBy() to create a Controller
-// for a single API type that manages other objects it creates.
-//
-// Application Controllers are most useful for stateful applications such as Cassandra, Etcd and MySQL
-// which contain operation logic for sharding, backup and restore, upgrade / downgrade, etc.
-package application
diff --git a/pkg/patterns/operator/doc.go b/pkg/patterns/operator/doc.go
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-/*
-Copyright 2018 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.
-*/
-
-/*
-Package operator serves to redirect users to the application package.
-
-Operators are the common name for Kubernetes APIs which manage specific applications.  e.g. Spark Operator,
-Etcd Operator.
-*/
-package operator