Add licensing information as discussed per email.gsoc-2010

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..314adce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright (c) 2010 Xie Wei, Petteri Räty, Hans de Graaff
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
+IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
+CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
+TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
+SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d86ccf..60abe3b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -53,4 +53,6 @@ Hans Graaff  (mentor, committer of the project)
 Wei Xie  <XieConnect (at) gmail.com> (co-author of the project, GSoC participant)
 
 
-### Copyright
+### License
+
+This code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.