> Looks obvious to me, indeed the copyright update tool seems to get this
> wrong.  Either the tool should have a special case (which seems difficult),
> or the end-of-year procedure could include "re-generate the Makefiles" at
> the end, that would automatically revert these wrong automated changes.

The script has an EXCLUDE_LIST for situation like these. I've pushed
the attached patch to master.

-- 
Joel