diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-Free Ekanayaka <free.ekanayaka@canonical.com>
+Unless mentioned otherwise in a specific file's header, all code in this
+project is released under the LGPL v3 license.
+
+The list of authors and contributors can be retrieved from the git
+commit history and in some cases, the file headers.