diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 833c9cda..5c2f6162 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-Copyright (c) 2011-2019 Eric Froemling
+Note: portions of this software, namely external libraries, are covered by
+other licenses such as BSD. See individual licenses under src/external/*.
+All other code is covered by the following (MIT License):
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal