update-copyright-year

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Update copyright year references across the project at the beginning of each calendar year.

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Yearly Copyright and License Update

This prompt helps update all copyright year references in the DSInternals project at the beginning of each new calendar year.

Files to Update

The following files contain copyright year references that need to be updated:

LICENSE.md - Main project license (MIT License)
Src/Directory.Build.props - MSBuild properties for all projects
Src/DSInternals.Replication.Interop/version.h - Version header for native interop library
Src/DSInternals.PowerShell/DSInternals.psd1 - PowerShell module manifest
Src/DSInternals.PowerShell/License.txt - License file included in binary distributions
Src/DSInternals.PowerShell/Chocolatey/dsinternals-psmodule.nuspec - Chocolatey package specification

Important Notes

The start year (2015) should never change - it represents when the project was first created. Only the end year should be updated to the current year.
The copyright holder name "Michael Grafnetter" should not be changed.
Third-party copyright notices should not be modified.
No other content in these files should be altered, only the year values. This applies to whitespaces as well.