diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index a8a80460d..527c6ad49 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell.
 
 Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Axel Liljencrantz
+Copyright (C) 2009-2019 fish-shell contributors
 
 fish is free software.
 
diff --git a/sphinx_doc_src/license.rst b/sphinx_doc_src/license.rst
index a406b3564..0dc202149 100644
--- a/sphinx_doc_src/license.rst
+++ b/sphinx_doc_src/license.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 License
 ========
 
-``fish`` Copyright © 2005-2009 Axel Liljencrantz. ``fish`` is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
+``fish`` Copyright © 2005-2009 Axel Liljencrantz, 2009-2019 fish-shell contributors. ``fish`` is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
 
 ``fish`` includes other code licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2, including GNU ``printf``.