diff --git a/guidelines/buildcraft.checkstyle b/guidelines/buildcraft.checkstyle
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<!--
+    This configuration file was written by the eclipse-cs plugin configuration editor
+-->
+<!--
+    Checkstyle-Configuration: BuildCraft
+    Description: none
+-->
+<module name="Checker">
+  <property name="severity" value="warning"/>
+  <module name="TreeWalker">
+    <module name="MissingOverride">
+      <property name="severity" value="error"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+    <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+    <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+    <module name="MethodName">
+      <property name="severity" value="error"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="ImportOrder">
+      <property name="groups" value="java,net.minecraft,cpw,net.minecraftforge,buildcraft"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="WhitespaceAround">
+      <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
+      <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+    <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+    <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+    <module name="RightCurly"/>
+    <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+    <module name="ParenPad"/>
+    <module name="TypecastParenPad">
+      <property name="tokens" value="RPAREN,TYPECAST"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+    <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+    <module name="EmptyForInitializerPad"/>
+    <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+    <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+    <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore">
+      <property name="tokens" value="SEMI,DOT,POST_DEC,POST_INC"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="DefaultComesLast"/>
+    <module name="DeclarationOrder"/>
+    <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+    <module name="EqualsAvoidNull"/>
+    <module name="FallThrough"/>
+    <module name="HiddenField">
+      <property name="tokens" value="VARIABLE_DEF"/>
+    </module>
+    <module name="ModifiedControlVariable"/>
+    <module name="MultipleStringLiterals"/>
+    <module name="NoClone"/>
+    <module name="NoFinalizer"/>
+    <module name="PackageDeclaration"/>
+    <module name="ParameterAssignment"/>
+    <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+    <module name="StringLiteralEquality"/>
+    <module name="UnnecessaryParentheses"/>
+    <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
+    <module name="FinalClass"/>
+    <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="Header">
+    <property name="severity" value="error"/>
+    <property name="headerFile" value="C:\cygwin64\home\ochem\BuildCraft\guidelines\header.txt"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+</module>
diff --git a/guidelines/header.txt b/guidelines/header.txt
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+++ b/guidelines/header.txt
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+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2011-2014, SpaceToad and the BuildCraft Team
+ * http://www.mod-buildcraft.com
+ *
+ * BuildCraft is distributed under the terms of the Minecraft Mod Public
+ * License 1.0, or MMPL. Please check the contents of the license located in
+ * http://www.mod-buildcraft.com/MMPL-1.0.txt
+ */