Add COPYRIGHT file

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b91ae40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Code Synthesis Ltd and the build2 contributors.
+
+For the full list of contributors, see the revision history in version control
+system.
+
+The copyright for the code is held by the contributors of the code. The code
+is licensed under permissive open source licensing terms (see the accompanying
+LICENSE file). When you contribute code to this project, you license it under
+these terms. Before contributing please make sure these terms are acceptable
+to you (or the organization that employs you) and that you are the author of
+the code being contributed.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 93d8f97..6a9d27d 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ see the file header for details.
 
 The rest:
 
-Copyright (c) 2014-2019 Code Synthesis Ltd
+MIT License
+
+See the accompanying COPYRIGHT file for the copyright information.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the