This check is wrong, the copyright date should be the earliest date that the project started, not the current date. There is likely no way to check that date programmatically, so a regex that checks for 4 digits making the year is sufficient (likely started 19 or 20 :)
https://github.com/googlefonts/gf-glyphs-scripts/blob/f93799f2ee67c30b442ded873a76b71341057a23/Google%20Fonts/qa.py#L192-L208
This check is wrong, the copyright date should be the earliest date that the project started, not the current date. There is likely no way to check that date programmatically, so a regex that checks for 4 digits making the year is sufficient (likely started 19 or 20 :)