diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d72ff70f8e..8fa5d9a932 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -50,5 +50,5 @@ script:
   # Verify that the project can be built and installed.
   - mvn install
   # Verify that starter and examples archetypes have the correct version of the NOTICE file.
-  - diff -q NOTICE maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/NOTICE
-  - diff -q NOTICE maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/NOTICE
+  - diff -q NOTICE maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/NOTICE
+  - diff -q NOTICE maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/NOTICE
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml b/maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
index 1d26f20888..2b9eb52d80 100644
--- a/maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
+++ b/maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
@@ -40,12 +40,5 @@
         <include>**/*.java</include>
       </includes>
     </fileSet>
-
-    <fileSet filtered="false" packaged="false" encoding="UTF-8">
-      <directory></directory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>NOTICE</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
   </fileSets>
 </archetype-descriptor>
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/NOTICE b/maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/NOTICE
similarity index 100%
rename from maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/NOTICE
rename to maven-archetypes/examples/src/main/resources/NOTICE
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml b/maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
index d8ded73555..4c22d5d68b 100644
--- a/maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
+++ b/maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
@@ -32,12 +32,5 @@
         <include>**/*.java</include>
       </includes>
     </fileSet>
-
-    <fileSet filtered="false" packaged="false" encoding="UTF-8">
-      <directory></directory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>NOTICE</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
   </fileSets>
 </archetype-descriptor>
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/NOTICE b/maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/NOTICE
similarity index 100%
rename from maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/archetype-resources/NOTICE
rename to maven-archetypes/starter/src/main/resources/NOTICE
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/starter/src/test/resources/projects/basic/reference/NOTICE b/maven-archetypes/starter/src/test/resources/projects/basic/reference/NOTICE
deleted file mode 100644
index 981fde5a9e..0000000000
--- a/maven-archetypes/starter/src/test/resources/projects/basic/reference/NOTICE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Google Cloud Dataflow SDK for Java
-Copyright 2017, Google Inc.
-
-This product includes software developed at
-The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).