diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index e97d420cb..f153af57c 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Copyright (c) 2002 University of Chicago and The Regents of the University
-of California. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 1991-2003 University of Chicago and The Regents of the
+University of California. All rights reserved.
 
 EPICS BASE is distributed subject to the following license agreement:
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 47c5bdbd1..ce971d630 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 EPICS Base - the central core of a control system toolkit
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
-Copyright (c) 2002 The University of Chicago, as Operator
+Copyright (c) 1991-2003 The University of Chicago, as Operator
 of Argonne National Laboratory.
-Copyright (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of
+Copyright (c) 1991-2003 The Regents of the University of
 California, as Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
 
 EPICS Base Versions 3.13.7 and higher are distributed