Most of the existing copyright statements present in the project have
been scrubbed of the year.  There is no need to specify the year in a
copyright statement.  Several large legally sophisticated companies,
include Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, are now publishing
open source code with copyright statements without a year.  We
encourage the larger open source community to emulate this.

The string "(c)" is legally meaningless. Most occurances have been
removed.