diff --git a/MIT-LICENSE.txt b/MIT-LICENSE.txt
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+++ b/MIT-LICENSE.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright 2012 Julian Aubourg <j@ubourg.net>
+
+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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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ What is it?
 
 jQuery ajaxHooks is a collection of `jQuery.ajax`, `jQuery.Callbacks` and `jQuery.Deferred` extensions and utilities.
 
+What license is it released under?
+----------------------------------
+
+jQuery ajaxHooks is copyright (c)2012 Julian Aubourg <j@ubourg.net> and licensed under the [MIT License]((https://github.com/jaubourg/ajaxHooks/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE.txt).
+
+To make it short, you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. I'd appreciate if you tried not to do evil with it though, thank you :)
+
 How can I build it ?
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