diff --git a/COPYING.md b/COPYING.md
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--- a/COPYING.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-MIT License
-Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
-
-Copyright (c) 2017-2023 Conceal Community
-Copyright (c) 2017-2018 The Circle Foundation & Conceal Devs
-Copyright (c) 2018-2023 Conceal Network & Conceal Devs
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
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--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-MIT License
-Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
-
-Copyright (c) 2017-2023 Conceal Community
-Copyright (c) 2017-2018 The Circle Foundation & Conceal Devs
-Copyright (c) 2018-2023 Conceal Network & Conceal Devs
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
-copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index aa6404ce..f9f447e7 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 MIT License
-Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 
-Copyright (c) 2017-2023 Conceal Community
+Copyright (c) 2011-2017 The Cryptonote developers
 Copyright (c) 2017-2018 The Circle Foundation & Conceal Devs
-Copyright (c) 2018-2023 Conceal Network & Conceal Devs
+Copyright (c) 2018-2024 Conceal Network & Conceal Devs
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -21,4 +20,4 @@ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
+SOFTWARE.
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3464511..61b736a7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -167,4 +167,4 @@ If the build is successful the binaries will be located in the `src` folder.
 Special thanks goes out to the developers from Cryptonote, Bytecoin, Ryo, Monero, Forknote, TurtleCoin, Karbo and Masari.
 
 
-Copyright (c) 2017-2023 Conceal Community, Conceal Network & Conceal Devs
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+Copyright (c) 2017-2024 Conceal Community, Conceal Network & Conceal Devs
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