diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index d645695673..06f2a127cc 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+Copyright 2011-2017 Dropbox, Inc., Kandra Labs, Inc., and contributors
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+
+The software includes some works released by third parties under other
+free and open source licenses. Those works are redistributed under the
+license terms under which the works were received. For more details,
+see the ``docs/THIRDPARTY`` file included with this distribution.
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@@ -175,28 +196,3 @@
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 391f26584c..4f369af6dd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,24 +73,5 @@ I am interested in:
 
 You may also be interested in reading our [blog](http://blog.zulip.org/) or
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+Zulip is distributed under the
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