diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Much of the code in libite (-lite) is written by Claudio Matsuoka for Finit
+and released under the MIT/X11 license.  Joachim Nilsson later improved on
+the Finit code base and included pieces of software released under the ISC
+and BSD licenses.  See each respective file for license details.
+
 Copyright (c) 2008-2010  Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com>
 Copyright (c) 2008-2015  Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>