diff --git a/checkstyle/plugin.jelly b/checkstyle/plugin.jelly
index 5964a83d..5d68f01d 100644
--- a/checkstyle/plugin.jelly
+++ b/checkstyle/plugin.jelly
@@ -254,6 +254,10 @@
     <checkstyle:report-filtered severity="warning"/>
     <checkstyle:report-filtered severity="info"/>
 
+    <tstamp>
+      <format property="currentYear" pattern="yyyy"/>
+    </tstamp>
+
     <!-- Generate a RSS feed of the checktyle errors -->
     <doc:jsl
       input="${maven.checkstyle.output.xml}"
diff --git a/checkstyle/src/plugin-resources/checkstyle2rss.jsl b/checkstyle/src/plugin-resources/checkstyle2rss.jsl
index 1c2b34c7..13191539 100644
--- a/checkstyle/src/plugin-resources/checkstyle2rss.jsl
+++ b/checkstyle/src/plugin-resources/checkstyle2rss.jsl
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
         <link>${pom.url}</link> 
         <description>Checkstyle report</description>
         <language>en-us</language>
-        <copyright>Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation</copyright>
+        <copyright>Copyright ${currentYear} ${pom.organization.name}</copyright>
         <item>
 
           <j:set var="fileCount"><x:expr select="count(file)"/></j:set>
diff --git a/checkstyle/src/plugin-test/project.xml b/checkstyle/src/plugin-test/project.xml
index ba78e7ad..eec5131c 100644
--- a/checkstyle/src/plugin-test/project.xml
+++ b/checkstyle/src/plugin-test/project.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   <groupId>maven</groupId>
   <currentVersion>1.0</currentVersion>
   <organization>
-    <name>Apache Software Foundation</name>
+    <name>Apache Software Foundation - test</name>
     <url>http://www.apache.org/</url>
     <logo>http://maven.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo-blue.gif</logo>
   </organization>
diff --git a/checkstyle/xdocs/changes.xml b/checkstyle/xdocs/changes.xml
index 7ad65eb5..83b315fe 100644
--- a/checkstyle/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/checkstyle/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="3.0-SNAPSHOT" date="in SVN">
+      <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPCHECKSTYLE-39">Do not assert ASF copyright in checkstyle.rss.</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="add">Added new summary report as front page.</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="update">Moved reports under the checkstyle folder and renamed.</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="update">Added maven.checkstyle.dir and move output files there.</action>
