diff --git a/bin/check-legal b/bin/check-legal
index 2fe9d4bb..d6dfd11d 100755
--- a/bin/check-legal
+++ b/bin/check-legal
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ function check_license {
 
 
 function check_copyright {
-    #YEAR=$(date +%Y)
-    YEAR=2021 # when this project was abandoned
-    find "${SRC}" -type d \( -path "${SRC}/vendor" \) -prune -o -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -L -e "Copyright.* 20[0-9][0-9]-${YEAR}"
+    find "${SRC}" -type d \( -path "${SRC}/vendor" \) -prune -o -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -L -e 'Copyright (c) "Neo4j"'
 }