diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
deleted file mode 100644
index 22e181d..0000000
--- a/LICENSE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-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
index be690a9..509cf6f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -124,3 +124,9 @@ Rack::Attack complements `iptables` and nginx's [limit_zone module](http://wiki.
 Thanks to [Kickstarter](https://github.com/kickstarter) for sponsoring Rack::Attack development
 
 [![Travis CI](https://secure.travis-ci.org/ktheory/rack-attack.png)](http://travis-ci.org/ktheory/rack-attack)
+
+## License
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 Kickstarter, Inc
+
+Released under an (MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
diff --git a/rack-attack.gemspec b/rack-attack.gemspec
index a04e386..eb2bf97 100644
--- a/rack-attack.gemspec
+++ b/rack-attack.gemspec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.description = "A rack middleware for throttling and blocking abusive requests"
   s.email = "aaron@ktheory.com"
 
-  s.files = Dir.glob("{bin,lib}/**/*") + %w(Rakefile LICENSE README.md)
+  s.files = Dir.glob("{bin,lib}/**/*") + %w(Rakefile README.md)
   s.homepage = 'http://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack'
   s.rdoc_options = ["--charset=UTF-8"]
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]