You need to format your copyright blurbs in a certain way to have update-copyright.py updating them automatically. Side effect: the person who does this will appear as author of all the files they modified.
diff --git a/update_copyright/project.py b/update_copyright/project.py index 6a4e3a8..79f7fea 100644 --- a/update_copyright/project.py +++ b/update_copyright/project.py @@ -181,6 +181,11 @@ class Project (object): authors=authors, text=self._copyright, info=self._info(), prefix=('/* ', ' * ', ' */'), width=self._width, tag=self._copyright_tag) + new_contents = _utils.update_copyright( + contents=new_contents, years=years, + authors=authors, text=self._copyright, info=self._info(), + prefix=('!! ', '!! ', ''), width=self._width, + tag=self._copyright_tag) _utils.set_contents( filename=filename, contents=new_contents, original_contents=contents, unicode=True, encoding=self._encoding,