diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal