diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1b1160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright (c) 2020-2025 BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS <vmysak@bccfe.ca>
+
+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.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 58e2be7..f015ea9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -88,3 +88,9 @@ Contributions are welcome! Please review the following guidelines before submitt
 - Thanks to the developers behind HIVSeqinR and CFEIntact – their tools are integrated as backends for defect analysis.
 - Acknowledgment to the MiCall project for alignment modules and related utilities.
 - For further reading on proviral sequencing and HIV research methodologies, refer to the [pipeline's documentation](https://cfe-lab.github.io/proviral).
+
+---
+
+## Licensing
+
+This project is destributed under the MIT license. For details see, [the LICENSE file](LICENSE).
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index db1d31f..0460d38 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 setup(
     name='cfeproviral',
     version='v2.3.10',
+    classifiers=[
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
+    ],
+    license='MIT',
     packages=find_packages(),
     install_requires=[
         'gotoh @ git+https://github.com/cfe-lab/MiCall.git@v7.7.0#egg=gotoh&subdirectory=micall/alignment',