diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22e181d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright (c) 2012 Aaron Suggs
+
+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 the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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index 0000000..66aa310
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# Rack::Attack - middleware for throttling & blocking abusive clients
diff --git a/rack-attack.gemspec b/rack-attack.gemspec
index babd70a..9b6bcf0 100644
--- a/rack-attack.gemspec
+++ b/rack-attack.gemspec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.description = "A flexible rack middleware for throttling and blocking requests"
   s.email = "aaron@ktheory.com"
 
-  s.files = Dir.glob("{bin,lib}/**/*") + %w(LICENSE README.rdoc Rakefile)
+  s.files = Dir.glob("{bin,lib}/**/*") + %w(LICENSE README.md)
   s.homepage = 'http://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack'
   s.rdoc_options = ["--charset=UTF-8"]
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]