diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index e706a157..a80006a2 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ AVRDUDE was written by:
 
 	Brian S. Dean  <bsd@bdmicro.com>
 
+AVRDUDE is currently maintained by:
+
+	Hans Eirik Bull
+	Stefan Rueger
+	Xiaofan Chen
+	Joerg Wunsch
+
 Contributors:
 
 	Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
@@ -38,5 +45,5 @@ Contributors to code no longer present:
 	Paula Tomlinson for the loaddrv sources
 	Chris Liechti for loaddrv modifications
 
-For minor contributions, please see the ChangeLog files.
+For minor contributions, please see the ChangeLog files / Git log.
 
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 23ef5aef..49c4c2b5 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -900,8 +900,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * argv [])
    */
   msg_notice("\n");
   pmsg_notice("Version %s\n", version);
-  imsg_notice("Copyright (c) Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/\n");
-  imsg_notice("Copyright (c) Joerg Wunsch\n\n");
+  imsg_notice("Copyright the AVRDUDE authors; see file AUTHORS\n\n");
 
   if(*sys_config) {
     char *real_sys_config = realpath(sys_config, NULL);