diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 7981307b..f09a7d0a 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-The language grammars included in this gem are covered by their repositories'
-respective licenses. See https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/grammars.yml
-to determine the repository for each grammar.
-
-All other files are covered by the following license:
-
 Copyright (c) 2011-2014 GitHub, Inc.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c2c803a8..2a5e7520 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -194,3 +194,11 @@ If you are the current maintainer of this gem:
  0. Merge github/linguist PR
  0. Tag and push: `git tag vx.xx.xx; git push --tags`
  0. Push to rubygems.org -- `gem push github-linguist-3.0.0.gem`
+
+## License
+
+The language grammars included in this gem are covered by their repositories'
+respective licenses. `grammars.yml` specifies the repository for each grammar.
+
+All other files are covered by the MIT license, see `LICENSE`.
+