diff --git a/update.py b/update.py
index d9dd5e4..c3964df 100644
--- a/update.py
+++ b/update.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
+import datetime
 from collections import OrderedDict, namedtuple
 
 # we do not use the nicer sys.version_info.major
@@ -113,10 +114,14 @@ def gen_cmake_command(config):
 
 
 def autogenerated_notice():
+    start_year = 2015
+    year_range = str(start_year)
+    current_year = datetime.date.today().year
+    if current_year > start_year:
+        year_range += '-%s' % current_year
     s = []
     s.append('# This file is autogenerated by Autocmake http://autocmake.org')
-    s.append('# Copyright (c) 2015 by Radovan Bast and Jonas Juselius')
-    s.append('# See https://github.com/scisoft/autocmake/')
+    s.append('# Copyright (c) %s by Radovan Bast and Jonas Juselius' % year_range)
     return '\n'.join(s)
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------