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A few years ago I was getting tired of having missing or out-of-date
copyright blurbs in packages that I was involved with (old license
text, missing authors, etc.).  This is important stuff, but not the
kind of thing that is fun to maintain by hand.  I wrote a script for
[bugs everywhere][be] that automated the process, using the version
control system to extract lists of authors and dates for each file.
The script was great, so I ported it into a few other projects I was
involved in.

This month I realized that it would be much easier to just break the
script out into its own package, and only maintain a config file in
each of the projects that use it.  I don't know why this didn't occur
to me years ago :p.  Anyhow, here it is!  Enjoy.

The `README`, with usage details, is posted on the [PyPI page][pypi].

[be]: http://bugseverywhere.org/
[pypi]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/update-copyright/

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