diff --git a/.act/workflow_dispatch_helm_test.json b/.act/workflow_dispatch_helm_test.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8a057e89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.act/workflow_dispatch_helm_test.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+    "inputs": {
+        "node_image": "kindest/node:v1.28.9",
+        "upgrade_from": "",
+        "helm_version": "latest"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
index fcb03b7e..383d2cd6 100644
--- a/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -243,6 +243,33 @@ act --list
 act --job lint-test -e .act/pr-event.json
 ```
 
+# Notes on the release
+
+## Run helm test locally for n kubernetes versions
+
+Using act, you can run workflows locally. If you want to test how to use the workflow, update the file 
+`.act/workflow_dispatch_helm_test.json` that contains the input parameters.
+
+Check for supported kubernetes versions of kind per [release](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases).
+
+```shell
+# root dir
+act workflow_dispatch -j lint-test -e .act/workflow_dispatch_helm_test.json
+```
+
+
+## Check license files
+
+For easier checks we created a small python script to check license files.
+
+It searches for the common contributor (Contributors to the EF) and prints files, not containing that
+
+```shell
+cd scripts
+
+python3 license-check.py
+```
+
 ## NOTICE
 
 This work is licensed under the [Apache-2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
diff --git a/scripts/license-check.py b/scripts/license-check.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c3f57296
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/license-check.py
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (represented by Fraunhofer ISST)
+# Copyright (c) 2024 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
+#
+# See the NOTICE file(s) distributed with this work for additional
+# information regarding copyright ownership.
+#
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+# terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0 which is available at
+# https://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.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+
+import os
+
+# Search above /scripts (root)
+directory = "../."
+license_header = """Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation"""
+
+# don't check SE life cycle folders
+blacklisted_folders = [
+    "node_modules",
+     ".git",
+     "build",
+     "target",
+     "dist",
+     ".idea",
+     ".mvn"
+]
+
+# exclude non_code artifacts
+excluded_extensions = [
+    ".png",
+    ".jpg",
+    ".gif",
+    ".pdf",
+    ".md",
+    ".svg",
+    ".puml",
+    ".properties",
+    ".keys",
+    ".secret",
+    ".key",
+    ".iml",
+    ".txt",
+    ".json",
+    ".ico",
+    ".jsonld",
+    ".tgz",
+    ".cert",
+    ".pem",
+    ".conf"
+]
+
+# exclude specific files by name patterns
+excluded_file_patterns  = [
+    "README",
+    "LICENSE",
+    "config",
+    ".gitignore",
+    ".helmignore",
+    ".prettierrc",
+    ".env",
+    "mvnw",
+    "DEPENDENCIES"
+]
+
+def file_contains_license(file_path, license_header):
+    with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as file:
+        content = file.read()
+        return license_header in content
+
+def find_files_without_license(directory, license_header, blacklisted_folders):
+    files_without_license = []
+    for root, _, files in os.walk(directory):
+        if any(blacklisted_folder in root for blacklisted_folder in blacklisted_folders):
+            continue
+        for file in files:
+            file_path = os.path.join(root, file)
+
+            # Skip files with excluded extensions
+            if any(file.endswith(ext) for ext in excluded_extensions):
+                print(f"Skipping excluded file: {file_path}")
+                continue
+
+             # Skip specific excluded files by start pattern
+            if any(file.startswith(pattern) for pattern in excluded_file_patterns):
+                print(f"Skipping specific excluded file by pattern: {file_path}")
+                continue
+
+            if not file_contains_license(file_path, license_header):
+                files_without_license.append(file_path)
+    return files_without_license
+
+# Run the script
+files_without_license = find_files_without_license(directory, license_header, blacklisted_folders)
+
+# Print the list of files without the license header
+if files_without_license:
+    print("Files without the license header:")
+    for file in files_without_license:
+        print(file)
+else:
+    print("All files contain the license header.")