diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+# This is the official list of gorilla/securecookie authors for copyright purposes.
+# Please keep the list sorted.
+
+0x434D53 <christoph.seufert@gmail.com>
+Abdülhamit Yilmaz <mr.yilmaz@gmx.de>
+Annonomus-Penguin <Annonomus-Penguin@users.noreply.github.com>
+Craig Peterson <cpeterson@stackoverflow.com>
+Cyril David <cyx@cyx.is>
+Dmitry Chestnykh <dmitry@codingrobots.com>
+Dominik Honnef <dominikh@fork-bomb.org>
+Google LLC (https://opensource.google.com/)
+John Downey <john@jtdowney.com>
+Kamil Kisiel <kamil@kamilkisiel.net>
+Keunwoo Lee <keunwoo@flux.io>
+Mahmud Ridwan <m@hjr265.me>
+Matt Silverlock <matt@eatsleeprepeat.net>
+rodrigo moraes <rodrigo.moraes@gmail.com>
+s7v7nislands <s7v7nislands@gmail.com>
+Wesley Bitter <github@wessie.info>
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2012 Rodrigo Moraes. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2012-2018 The Gorilla Authors. All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are