diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 121c4ebc..fa2d8032 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@ License
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 This software is licensed under the [GPL v3 license][gpl].
-© 2015-2016 YouCompleteMe contributors
+© 2015-2017 YouCompleteMe contributors
 
 [ycmd]: https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd
 [Clang]: http://clang.llvm.org/
diff --git a/doc/youcompleteme.txt b/doc/youcompleteme.txt
index b4e1b4c2..ca1d2d69 100644
--- a/doc/youcompleteme.txt
+++ b/doc/youcompleteme.txt
@@ -3324,7 +3324,7 @@ The author's homepage is http://val.markovic.io.
                                                         *youcompleteme-license*
 License ~
 
-This software is licensed under the GPL v3 license [70]. © 2015-2016
+This software is licensed under the GPL v3 license [70]. © 2015-2017
 YouCompleteMe contributors
 
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