diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Enrico Ciracì
+
+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
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+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
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@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ Map Italy - Along Track Grid
 - [geopandas: add support for geographic data to pandas objects.][]
 - [matplotlib: Library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.][]
 
+## License
+
+The content of this project is licensed under the [Creative Commons
+Attribution 4.0 Attribution license][] and the source code is licensed
+under the [MIT license][].
+
 
 [Language]: https://img.shields.io/badge/python-%3E%3D%203.10-blue
 [License]: https://img.shields.io/bower/l/MI
@@ -51,4 +57,6 @@ Map Italy - Along Track Grid
 [PyTMD: Python package for the analysis of tidal data.]: https://github.com/tsutterley/pyTMD
 [pandas: Python Data Analysis Library.]:https://pandas.pydata.org/
 [geopandas: add support for geographic data to pandas objects.]:https://geopandas.org/en/stable/
-[matplotlib: Library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.]:https://matplotlib.org
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+[matplotlib: Library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.]:https://matplotlib.org
+[Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Attribution license]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
+[MIT license]: LICENSE