diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ College students in 2018 and early 2019. Other portions of this book began as
 web pages written by Jan Pearce as support for a Berea College C++ programming class.
 Still other sections were newly written by Jan Pearce for this ebook.
 
-Special acknowledgement is due to  `Jesse Walker-Schadler <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwwschadler/>`_ who while just a student in the Berea College Data Structures course had a vision of making graphics in C++ as easy as they are in Python both in terms of both syntax and installations.  Over the course of two summers, he realized this vision with the creation in `the open source CTurtle library <https://github.com/walkerje/C-Turtle>`_ which provides all of the C++ interactive graphics in this textbook. 
+Special acknowledgement is due to  `Jesse Walker-Schadler <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesswwalker/>`_ who while just a student in the Berea College Data Structures course had a vision of making graphics in C++ as easy as they are in Python both in terms of both syntax and installations.  Over the course of two summers, he realized this vision with the creation in `the open source CTurtle library <https://github.com/walkerje/C-Turtle>`_ which provides all of the C++ interactive graphics in this textbook. 
 
 How to use and suggest changes to this book
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diff --git a/pretext/main.ptx b/pretext/main.ptx
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     <book xml:id="cpp4py-v2" permid="cpp4py-v2">
         <title>C++ for Python Programmers</title>
         <subtitle>The PreTeXt Edition</subtitle>
+        <xi:include href="./meta_frontmatter.ptx" />
         <xi:include href="./IntroCpp/toctree.ptx"/>
         <xi:include href="./AtomicData/toctree.ptx"/>
         <xi:include href="./Control_Structures/toctree.ptx"/>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- This frontmatter division contains all content before the -->
+<!-- first chapter.  -->
+<frontmatter xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xml:id="meta_frontmatter">
+
+  <bibinfo>
+    <author>
+      <personname>Dr. Jan Pearce and Dr. Brad Miller</personname>
+      <department>Computer Science</department>
+      <institution>Berea College</institution>
+    </author>
+    <date><today/></date>
+    <copyright>
+    <!-- In addition to specifying the copyright holder, you should  -->
+      <!-- include a license, such as the cc-by-sa license shown below -->
+      <!-- so people reading your book know how they can use it.       -->
+      <year>2022<ndash/>2023</year>
+      <holder>Dr. Jan Pearce</holder>
+      <!-- <minilicense><image source="../images/by-sa.png" /></minilicense> -->
+      <shortlicense>
+        <image source="cc-image.png" width="25%">
+          <description>CC BY-SA 4.0</description>
+        </image>
+        <p>
+        </p>
+        <!-- <image source="../images/by-sa.png" width="15%"/>  -->
+        This work is licensed under the open source Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
+        <url 
+          href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode"
+          visual="creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode">
+          CC BY-SA 4.0
+        </url>
+        For a human readable summary see <url href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" visual="creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC-BY-SA 4.0 Summary</url>.
+      </shortlicense>
+    </copyright>
+    </bibinfo>
+
+  <titlepage>
+    <titlepage-items/>
+  </titlepage>
+
+  <colophon>
+    <title>Open Source Licensing</title>
+    <colophon-items/>
+  </colophon>
+  <!--     <website>
+      <name><c>my-website.org</c></name>
+      <address>http://pretextbook.org</address>
+    </website> -->
+
+  <acknowledgement>
+    <p>
+      Special acknowledgement is due to <url href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesswwalker/" visual="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesswwalker/">Jesse Walker-Schadler</url> who while just a student in the Berea College Data Structures course had a vision of making graphics in C++ as easy as they are in Python both in terms of both syntax and installations. Over the course of two summers, he realized this vision with the creation in <url href="https://github.com/walkerje/C-Turtle" visual="https://github.com/walkerje/C-Turtle">the open source CTurtle library</url> which provides all of the C++ interactive graphics in this textbook.
+    </p>
+  </acknowledgement>
+
+  <preface xml:id="meta_frontmatter-preface">
+  <!-- You should be a little careful about what you put here -->
+    <!-- Avoid elements that should have a number, for example  -->
+    <p>
+      This short ebook is intended to make it easy for anyone with at least some background in Python to transition to programming in C++.
+    </p>
+    <p>    
+      Portions of this book began as Java for Python Programmers by Brad Miller. These sections were translated to C++ by Jan Pearce and a team of excellent Berea College students in 2018 and early 2019. Other portions of this book began as web pages written by Jan Pearce as support for a Berea College C++ programming class. Still other sections were newly written by Jan Pearce for this ebook.
+    </p>
+  </preface>
+  <!-- Note: You can have more than one preface. -->
+</frontmatter>