diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index f5ff8b8a5..a85c1571d 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1 +1,16 @@
-All files not containing an explicit copyright notice or terms of license in the file are Copyright © 2015, Unleash Kids, and are licensed under the terms of the GPLv2 license in the file named COPYING in the root of the repository.
+COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
+ 
+Many files in this repository have an explicit copyright notice and terms of license in the file.
+ 
+Authors contributing to this repository are encouraged to provide a copyright notice and to license their work 
+under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; 
+either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.  
+
+This license is contained in the file named COPYING.  The simplest way to do this is to include 
+the following two lines at the top of the file:
+ 
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+ 
+All files not containing an explicit copyright notice or terms of license in the file are Copyright © 2015, Unleash Kids, 
+and are licensed under the terms of the GPLv2 license in the file named COPYING in the root of the repository.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README-historical.md
similarity index 100%
rename from README.rst
rename to README-historical.md