diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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+++ b/COPYING
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Copyright Notice and Statement for NCSA Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)
 Software Library and Utilities
 
 NCSA HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format 5) Software Library and Utilities 
-Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by the Board of Trustees 
+Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by the Board of Trustees 
 of the University of Illinois.  All rights reserved.
 
 Contributors: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the