diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b970bd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Alvaro Lopes <alvieboy@alvie.com>
+
+  components/mini_usb_b.lib
+
+Rene Harder <rehar@saweb.de>
+
+  modules/mini-usb.fpd
+
+Werner Almesberger <werner@openmoko.org>
+
+  components/at86rf230.lib
+  components/c8051f326.lib
+  modules/meander.fpd
+  modules/qfn.fpd
+  modules/stdpass.fpd
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2e2d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+This work in this directory and the directories below it is under the
+copyright of various authors. Authorship is indicated either directly
+in the files containing the respective work or in the file AUTHORS.
+
+
+Unless otherwise indicated, all code is distributed under the terms of
+the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2:
+
+    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+For your convenience, a copy of the complete license has been included
+in the file COPYING.GPLv2.
+
+
+Some code may be considered "library" to be distributed under the more
+lenient GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.1. Such code is
+only licensed under the LGPL if explicitly marked so. By default, all
+code is under the GPL.
+
+    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+For your convenience, a copy of the complete LGPL has been included in
+the file COPYING.LGPLv21.
+
+
+All files that are not considered code, such as schematic symbols and
+board layout, are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
+Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (cc-by-sa 3.0):
+
+    This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share
+    Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
+    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to
+    Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco,
+    California, 94105, USA.
+
+The complete text of the license is available at the following
+location:
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
+
+
+More information about the respective license can be obtained at the
+following locations:
+
+http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
+http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
diff --git a/README b/README
index 40c979a..a16bb44 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ This project aims to add experimental WPAN functionality to the Ben
 NanoNote, in order to permit evaluation of overall network performance
 and to examine possible integration into future devices.
 
+This work is licensed under the terms detailed in the file COPYING.
+
 
 Hardware architecture
 ---------------------