diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 6310b1550a..f6ae6756be 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ 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 by the Board of Trustees of the University of 
-Illinois.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by the Board of Trustees of the 
+University of Illinois.  All rights reserved.
 
 Contributors: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Lawrence Livermore