diff --git a/scripts/check_copyright_header.py b/scripts/check_copyright_header.py
index e5cfad077..aa3eeba54 100644
--- a/scripts/check_copyright_header.py
+++ b/scripts/check_copyright_header.py
@@ -10,9 +10,16 @@
 HEADER = """# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
 # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the Llama 2 Community License Agreement.\n\n"""
 
+#Files in black list must be relative to main repo folder
+BLACKLIST = ["eval/open_llm_leaderboard/hellaswag_utils.py"]
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     for ext in ["*.py", "*.sh"]:
         for file in WORK_DIR.rglob(ext):
+            normalized = file.relative_to(WORK_DIR)
+            if normalized.as_posix() in BLACKLIST:
+                continue
+            
             text = file.read_text()
             if not re.search(PATTERN, text):
                 text = HEADER + text