From 6d5282c5dd73fa0173184fe13228f5885f9d8163 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 11:33:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Format copyright year as "X - Y" when the year in the config
 is not the current year

---
 Changes             | 3 +++
 lib/Dist/Zilla.pm   | 8 +++++++-
 t/plugins/license.t | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index bd14add36..650d2c499 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for {{$dist->name}}
 
 {{$NEXT}}
+        - if the copyright_year in the dist.ini is not this year, the
+          copyright statement and license are formatted as "$year -
+          $current_year" (Dave Rolsky, github #578)
 
 6.008     2016-10-05 21:35:23-04:00 America/New_York
         - fix the skip message from ExtraTests (thanks, Roy Ivy Ⅲ!)
diff --git a/lib/Dist/Zilla.pm b/lib/Dist/Zilla.pm
index 873ceb75d..034fd1019 100644
--- a/lib/Dist/Zilla.pm
+++ b/lib/Dist/Zilla.pm
@@ -383,9 +383,15 @@ sub _build_license {
     );
   }
 
+  my $this_year = (localtime)[5] + 1900;
+  my $years
+    = $copyright_year == $this_year
+    ? $copyright_year
+    : "$copyright_year - $this_year";
+
   my $license = $license_class->new({
     holder => $self->_copyright_holder,
-    year   => $self->_copyright_year,
+    year   => $years,
   });
 
   $self->_clear_license_class;
diff --git a/t/plugins/license.t b/t/plugins/license.t
index 89081caf5..f986f68d3 100644
--- a/t/plugins/license.t
+++ b/t/plugins/license.t
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ subtest "ASCII-only author" => sub {
     { dist_root => 'corpus/dist/DZT' },
     {
       add_files => {
-        'source/dist.ini' => simple_ini('License'),
+        'source/dist.ini' => simple_ini({ copyright_year => 2012 }, 'License'),
       },
     },
   );
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ subtest "ASCII-only author" => sub {
 
   like(
     $contents,
-    qr{This software is copyright .c. [0-9]+ by E\. Xavier Ample}i,
+    qr{This software is copyright .c. 2012 - \d\d\d\d by E\. Xavier Ample}i,
     "copyright appears in LICENSE file",
   );