diff --git a/README b/README
line changes: +1/-3
index 9caebad..9b65b26
--- a/README
+++ b/README

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ This is the README file for the GNU Hello distribution.
 Hello prints a friendly greeting.  It also serves as a sample GNU
 package, showing practices that may be useful for GNU projects.
 
-  Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
-  2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free Software
-  Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/README-dev b/README-dev
line changes: +1/-2
index 0aeb4a5..1910f38
--- a/README-dev
+++ b/README-dev

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 This README.dev file describes the development environment.
 
-  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
-  2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (C) 2002-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
line changes: +1/-1
index 44b0ce5..c47e69b
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Additional contributors to GNU Hello.
 
-  Copyright (C) 1999, 2005, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (C) 1999-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
line changes: +5/-1
index b8a9f63..bb61590
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Configuration for maintainer-makefile
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

@@ -20,3 +20,7 @@ gnulib_dir = $(GNULIB_SRCDIR)
 
 # Set format of NEWS
 old_NEWS_hash := db15df6458fe88ef5d0585717fc5de57
+
+update-copyright-env = \
+  UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_FORCE=1 \
+  UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_USE_INTERVALS=2

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
line changes: +1/-2
index 0d77ef1..053a747
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-dnl Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
-dnl 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+dnl Copyright (C) 2004-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 dnl This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
 dnl unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without

diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
line changes: +1/-2
index 0893a61..cf79402
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog

@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@
 
 	* Makefile.am: New file.
 
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/contrib/de_franconian_po.txt b/contrib/de_franconian_po.txt
line changes: +1/-1
index 76e115a..c2779bf
--- a/contrib/de_franconian_po.txt
+++ b/contrib/de_franconian_po.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ dann humorvoll:
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # German messages for GNU hello.
 # Fr�nkische Meldungen f�r GNU hello.
-# Copyright (C) 1998, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # Karl Eichwalder <ke@ke.Central.DE>, 1996-97.
 # Karl Eichwalder <ke@suse.de>, 1998.
 # Uwe Seifert, 2000 (translation german � franconian)

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
line changes: +1/-2
index 57d99ed..549af12
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog

@@ -172,8 +172,7 @@ Tue Dec 19 08:26:09 1995  Karl Eichwalder  <ke@ke.Central.DE>
 
 	* Makefile.in, version.texi: New file.
 
-Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2014,
-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/doc/hello.texi b/doc/hello.texi
line changes: +1/-2
index ae44251..9f535b0
--- a/doc/hello.texi
+++ b/doc/hello.texi

@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
 This manual is for GNU Hello (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}),
 which prints a friendly greeting (and serves as an example GNU package).
 
-Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 @quotation
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document

diff --git a/doc/local.mk b/doc/local.mk
line changes: +1/-3
index 7ec4f6a..0ff87f4
--- a/doc/local.mk
+++ b/doc/local.mk

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 # Make hello documentation.				-*-Makefile-*-
 # This is included by the top-level Makefile.am.
 
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-# 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
-# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog
line changes: +1/-2
index cea6544..fad87dd
--- a/man/ChangeLog
+++ b/man/ChangeLog

@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@
 	* Makefile.am: New file; filled with template information from the
 	textutils package.
 
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1999-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/po/ChangeLog b/po/ChangeLog
line changes: +1/-2
index 164a454..4f63d04
--- a/po/ChangeLog
+++ b/po/ChangeLog

@@ -572,8 +572,7 @@ Fri Dec 15 11:59:51 1995  Karl Eichwalder  <ke@ke.Central.DE>
 	* POTFILES.in: New file.  Lists `getopt.c', `getopt1.c',
 	`hello.c', and `version.c'.
 
-Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
-2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
line changes: +1/-1
index b1e7110..2a113da
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
line changes: +1/-2
index 06ed7e2..1037aa8
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog

@@ -348,8 +348,7 @@ Tue Dec 19 08:26:09 1995  Karl Eichwalder  <ke@ke.Central.DE>
 
 	* Makefile.in: New file.
 
-Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006,
-2008, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/src/hello.c b/src/hello.c
line changes: +1/-3
index 5bb87d5..dd277d5
--- a/src/hello.c
+++ b/src/hello.c

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 /* hello.c -- print a greeting message and exit.
 
-   Copyright 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005,
-   2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free Software
-   Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
line changes: +1/-2
index 887db48..87d2b17
--- a/src/system.h
+++ b/src/system.h

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /* system.h: system-dependent declarations; include this first.
 
-   Copyright 1996, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free
-   Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright 1996-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

diff --git a/tests/ChangeLog b/tests/ChangeLog
line changes: +1/-2
index fcd11ea..3a75b93
--- a/tests/ChangeLog
+++ b/tests/ChangeLog

@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ Mon Dec 30 17:29:37 1996  Karl Eichwalder  <ke@ke.Central.DE>
 
 	* testdata: Copied from `../src/'.
 
-Copyright 1996, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 1996-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/tests/greeting-1 b/tests/greeting-1
line changes: +1/-1
index 2878cdc..4887ac4
--- a/tests/greeting-1
+++ b/tests/greeting-1

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Test arbitrary --greeting.
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001, 2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/tests/greeting-2 b/tests/greeting-2
line changes: +1/-1
index ab6b459..3490a76
--- a/tests/greeting-2
+++ b/tests/greeting-2

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Test very long --greeting argument, and also show skipping a test.
 # (And one way to compute full moons.)
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001, 2006, 2014-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/tests/hello-1 b/tests/hello-1
line changes: +1/-1
index d984411..39986bc
--- a/tests/hello-1
+++ b/tests/hello-1

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Test standard GNU greeting.
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001, 2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/tests/last-1 b/tests/last-1
line changes: +1/-1
index 60542e0..d9bab48
--- a/tests/last-1
+++ b/tests/last-1

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Test that last greeting option specified is what counts.
 #
-# Copyright 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright 2008-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright

diff --git a/tests/traditional-1 b/tests/traditional-1
line changes: +1/-1
index f3fb37a..98494b9
--- a/tests/traditional-1
+++ b/tests/traditional-1

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Test traditional greeting.
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2001, 2006, 2014, 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 # are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright