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 ## Copyright and license
 
-Code and documentation copyright 2011-2015 Twitter, Inc. Code released under [the MIT license](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE). Docs released under [Creative Commons](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/docs/LICENSE).
+Code and documentation copyright 2011-2016 Twitter, Inc. Code released under [the MIT license](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE). Docs released under [Creative Commons](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/docs/LICENSE).