diff --git a/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml b/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml
index cf09f58af..4ad561938 100644
--- a/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml
+++ b/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml
@@ -58,12 +58,6 @@
             <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
             <artifactId>virtdata-lib-basics</artifactId>
diff --git a/adapter-diag/pom.xml b/adapter-diag/pom.xml
index 773c21e0c..8683ce14d 100644
--- a/adapter-diag/pom.xml
+++ b/adapter-diag/pom.xml
@@ -47,13 +47,6 @@
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
 
 <!--    <build>-->
diff --git a/driver-diag/pom.xml b/driver-diag/pom.xml
index 9c4ce42d1..743db7418 100644
--- a/driver-diag/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-diag/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -25,13 +41,6 @@
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
 
 
diff --git a/driver-http/pom.xml b/driver-http/pom.xml
index e44df1900..08200ff23 100644
--- a/driver-http/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-http/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -26,13 +42,6 @@
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/driver-jmx/pom.xml b/driver-jmx/pom.xml
index 7b2b9562f..cb087d4ef 100644
--- a/driver-jmx/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-jmx/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -19,12 +35,6 @@
 
     <dependencies>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
             <artifactId>engine-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/driver-mongodb/pom.xml b/driver-mongodb/pom.xml
index cddc478f6..54014d4f9 100644
--- a/driver-mongodb/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-mongodb/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -24,12 +40,6 @@
           <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-          <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
             <artifactId>mongodb-driver-sync</artifactId>
diff --git a/driver-stdout/pom.xml b/driver-stdout/pom.xml
index b3bdc7642..65e9a4c2a 100644
--- a/driver-stdout/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-stdout/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -26,13 +42,6 @@
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
 
 
diff --git a/driver-tcp/pom.xml b/driver-tcp/pom.xml
index b8f1c6510..fc340529e 100644
--- a/driver-tcp/pom.xml
+++ b/driver-tcp/pom.xml
@@ -43,12 +43,6 @@
           <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-          <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
 
 </project>
diff --git a/drivers-api/pom.xml b/drivers-api/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b52c8046..000000000
--- a/drivers-api/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-
-
-    <parent>
-        <artifactId>mvn-defaults</artifactId>
-        <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-        <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../mvn-defaults</relativePath>
-    </parent>
-
-    <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-    <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
-    <description>
-        The drivers API for nosqlbench;
-        Provides the interfaces needed to build drivers that can be loaded
-        by nosqlbench core
-    </description>
-
-    <dependencies>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>nb-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>virtdata-userlibs</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>adapters-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-
-    </dependencies>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/engine-api/pom.xml b/engine-api/pom.xml
index 3e115dea9..6c415e101 100644
--- a/engine-api/pom.xml
+++ b/engine-api/pom.xml
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>nb-spectest</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>adapters-api</artifactId>
             <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>nb-spectest</artifactId>
             <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
 
diff --git a/engine-core/pom.xml b/engine-core/pom.xml
index 72575efb5..cebd30fa6 100644
--- a/engine-core/pom.xml
+++ b/engine-core/pom.xml
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (c) 2022 nosqlbench
+  ~
+  ~ 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.
+  -->
+
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
@@ -25,12 +41,6 @@
             <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
 
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>io.nosqlbench</groupId>
-            <artifactId>drivers-api</artifactId>
-            <version>4.17.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        </dependency>
-
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.dropwizard.metrics</groupId>
             <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 54f86aa04..de3cf1ba0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
         <module>engine-cli</module>
         <module>engine-rest</module>
         <module>engine-clients</module>
-        <module>drivers-api</module>
         <module>adapters-api</module>
 
         <!-- driver modules -->