Never used the maven license Plugin 😇. In the context of Eclipse Winery, we use IntelliJ's code header functionality or update the headers manually: Each class has the year of the last change. The main reason was consistency to the other classes in the project. I see three options: A) leave as is and update CONTRIBUTING.MD B) Change all headers to maven style C) Change all headers to a single line SPDX Identifier, which does not hold any year. The copyright holders are contained in the root LICENSE file. Option C makes it easy to maintain, but hard for license scanners. Option A is IMHO the least WTF, but harder to maintain. Need to check whether the maven plugin can use some other search expression (similar to IntelliJ) so that option A is also possible Tobias <notifications@github.com> schrieb am Mo., 29. Okt. 2018, 06:50: