diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+# This is the list of sockjs-client authors for copyright purposes.
+#
+# This does not necessarily list everyone who has contributed code, since in
+# some cases, their employer may be the copyright holder.  To see the full list
+# of contributors, see the revision history in source control.
+Bryce Kahle
+Marek Majkowski
+VMWare
+LearnBoost
+Julian Aubourg
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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-Parts of the code are derived from various open source projects.
-
-For code derived from Socket.IO by Guillermo Rauch see
-https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/tree/0.6.17#readme.
-
-Snippets derived from jQuery-JSONP by Julian Aubourg, generic MIT
-license.
-
-All other code is released on MIT license, see LICENSE.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2011-2012 VMware, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 2011-2018 The sockjs-client Authors.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal