diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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+# This is the list of HPy's significant contributors.
+#
+# This does not necessarily list everyone who has contributed code,
+# especially since many employees of one corporation may be contributing.
+# To see the full list of contributors, see the revision history in
+# source control.
+Alexander Schremmer
+Ammar Askar
+Ankith (ankith26)
+Antonio Cuni
+Armin Rigo
+Charlie Hayden
+Christian Klein
+Daniel Alley
+Dominic Davis-Foster
+Jaime Resano Aísa
+Joachim Trouverie
+Julian Berman
+Krish Patel
+Kyle Lawlor-Bagcal
+Mathieu Dupuy
+Matti Picus
+Max Horn
+Maxwell Bernstein
+Mohamed Koubaa
+Nico Rittinghaus
+Omer Katz
+Oracle and/or its affiliates
+Paul Prescod
+Pierre Augier 
+Robert O'Shea
+Ronan Lamy
+Simon Cross
+Stefan Behnel
+Stefano Rivera
+Victor Stinner
+Vytautas Liuolia
+Łukasz Langa
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2019 pyhandle
+Copyright (c) 2019 The HPy 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