diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
deleted file mode 100644
index be5ebaed..00000000
--- a/COPYING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-This package contains the Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine.
-Originally developed at Hewlett Packard Laboratories Bristol and
-at Hewlett Packard Co, Greeley Colorado, all the code
-in this distribution is now licensed under the Apache License:
-
-** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-** You may obtain a copy of the License at
-** http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-** Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-** distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-** WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-** See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-** limitations under the License.
-
-
-Other Dependencies and Licenses:
-================================
-
-Tesseract uses Leptonica library (http://leptonica.com/) which essentially
-uses a BSD 2-clause license. (http://leptonica.com/about-the-license.html)
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index bdbb7e87..5a4f3163 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SUBDIRS = src/arch src/ccutil src/viewer src/cutil src/opencl src/ccstruct
 SUBDIRS += src/dict src/classify src/wordrec src/textord src/lstm
 SUBDIRS += src/ccmain src/api . tessdata doc unittest
 
-EXTRA_DIST = README.md
+EXTRA_DIST = README.md LICENSE
 EXTRA_DIST += aclocal.m4 config configure.ac autogen.sh
 EXTRA_DIST += tesseract.pc.in $(TRAINING_SUBDIR) java doc langtests unlvtests
 EXTRA_DIST += CMakeLists.txt tesseract.pc.cmake cmake VERSION src/vs2010 cppan.yml
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 522b2fbb..620042fa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 
 This package contains an **OCR engine** - `libtesseract` and a **command line program** - `tesseract`.
 Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused
-on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of 
-Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with 
-Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0). 
-It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example 
+on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of
+Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with
+Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0).
+It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example
 those from the tessdata repository.
 
 The lead developer is Ray Smith. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny.
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ Please report an issue only for a **bug**, not for asking questions.
 
 **NOTE**: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.
 
+Tesseract uses [Leptonica library](http://leptonica.com/) which essentially
+uses a [BSD 2-clause license](http://leptonica.com/about-the-license.html).
+
 ## Latest Version of README
 
 For the latest online version of the README.md see: