diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7b4177fa5..49e3d27c5 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 Please do contribute!
 
+## Licensing
+
+All contributions are made under the same MIT License as the rest of the
+project, except documentation which is licensed under the Creative
+Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You retain the copyright
+to code you have written.
+
+When accepting your first contribution, the maintainer of the project
+will ensure that you are added to the CONTRIBUTORS file.
+
 ## Building
 
 [See the wiki](https://github.com/calmh/syncthing/wiki/Building)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..727f4cd6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Aaron Bieber <qbit@deftly.net>
+Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
+James Patterson <jamespatterson@operamail.com>
+Philippe Schommers <philippe@schommers.be>
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index f94dde919..ac87dc7cb 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Jakob Borg
+Copyright (C) 2014 Jakob Borg and other contributors (see the CONTRIBUTORS file).
 
 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