diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index acec1e8b93..2f07ed0819 100644
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -1288,8 +1288,6 @@
 ./bin/win32/BINDInstall/resource.h		X	2001,2005,2009,2018,2019
 ./bind.keys					X	2009,2010,2011,2017,2018,2019
 ./bind.keys.h					X	2009,2010,2011,2012,2014,2017,2018,2019
-./cocci/config-h.spatch				X	2019
-./cocci/unreachable.spatch			X	2018,2019
 ./config.guess					X	1998,1999,2000,2001,2004,2009,2013,2018,2019
 ./config.h.in					X	1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
 ./config.h.win32				C	1999,2000,2001,2004,2006,2007,2008,2009,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
diff --git a/util/merge_copyrights b/util/merge_copyrights
index 5e5e35b9af..e7ac148edd 100644
--- a/util/merge_copyrights
+++ b/util/merge_copyrights
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ while (<CHANGES>) {
 	       \.hints?\.in$ |  # zone files
 	       /hints$ |        # zone files
 	       \.zone$ |        # zone files
+	       \.spatch$ |	# coccinelle spatch files
 	       \.conf$ |        # configuration files
 	       \.conf\.in$ |    # configuration files
 	       \.dir-locals\.el | # emacs local variables