diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright 2009, Ryan Lienhart Dahl. All rights reserved.
+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. 
+
+
+
+
+http_parser is based on Zed Shaw's Mongrel. Mongrel's license is as follows.
+
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+Mongrel Web Server (Mongrel) is copyrighted free software by Zed A. Shaw
+<zedshaw at zedshaw dot com> and contributors. You can redistribute it 
+and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL2 or the conditions below:
+
+1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
+   software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the
+   original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
+
+2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that
+   you do at least ONE of the following:
+
+     a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them
+     Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an
+     equivalent medium, or by allowing the author to include your
+     modifications in the software.
+
+     b) use the modified software only within your corporation or
+        organization.
+
+     c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict with
+     standard executables, which must also be provided.
+
+     d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
+
+3. You may distribute the software in object code or executable
+   form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
+
+     a) distribute the executables and library files of the software,
+     together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where
+     to get the original distribution.
+
+     b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the
+     software.
+
+     c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, with
+        instructions on where to get the original software distribution.
+
+     d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
+
+4. You may modify and include the part of the software into any other
+   software (possibly commercial).  But some files in the distribution
+   are not written by the author, so that they are not under this terms.
+
+5. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as 
+   output from the software do not automatically fall under the
+   copyright of the software, but belong to whomever generated them, 
+   and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
+   software.
+
+6. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
+   IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
+   WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+   PURPOSE.
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diff --git a/http_parser.h b/http_parser.h
index d41580e..c83a319 100644
--- a/http_parser.h
+++ b/http_parser.h
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2008 Ryan Dahl (ry@tinyclouds.org)
- * All rights reserved.
+/* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Ryan Dahl (ry@tinyclouds.org)
+ * Based on Zed Shaw's Mongrel, copyright (c) Zed A. Shaw
  *
- * This parser is based on code from Zed Shaw's Mongrel.
- * Copyright (c) 2005 Zed A. Shaw
+ * All rights reserved.
  * 
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
diff --git a/http_parser.rl b/http_parser.rl
index 3b4700f..7e13f1e 100644
--- a/http_parser.rl
+++ b/http_parser.rl
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 /* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Ryan Dahl (ry@tinyclouds.org)
- *
- * Based on Zed Shaw's Mongrel.
- * Copyright (c) 2005 Zed A. Shaw
+ * Based on Zed Shaw's Mongrel, copyright (c) Zed A. Shaw
  *
  * All rights reserved.
  *