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@@ -218,6 +218,6 @@ generated when building libcontainer with docker.
 
 ## Copyright and license
 
-Code and documentation copyright 2014 Docker, inc. Code released under the Apache 2.0 license.
+Code and documentation copyright 2016 Docker, inc. Code released under the Apache 2.0 license.
 Docs released under Creative commons.