Issue 5250 - Add copyright update script

update-copyright/README.md

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+# update-copyright
+
+This script will attempt to update the eyeo copyright information on each
+page of each repo listed on a Mercurial index page.
+By default, running the script will scrape [https://hg.adblockplus.org/](https://hg.adblockplus.org/),
+and then for each repo, it will:
+* make a local copy of the repo
+* update the copyright information on each file to the current year
+* attempt to push the updates to `ssh://hg@hg.adblockplus.org/`
+
+If a user doesn't have permission to push to a repo, the script will make a
+local `repo-name.patch` file to submit later. 
+
+You are free to use this for other projects but please keep in mind that we
+make no stability guarantees whatsoever and might change functionality any
+time.
+
+## How to use
+
+To update the copyright on all the repos indexed at [https://hg.adblockplus.org/](https://hg.adblockplus.org/),
+simply run the script, e.g.:
+
+    ./update_copyright.py
+
+To run the script elsewhere, you must specify the URL for a Mercurial index
+site to scrape, and the location of the base URL to push to, e.g.:
+
+    ./update_copyright.py -u https://hg.example.com/ -p ssh://user@hg.example.com/
+
+## Testing
+
+Testing can be run via [tox](http://tox.readthedocs.org/).