diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
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+The Prometheus project was started by Matt T. Proud (emeritus) and
+Julius Volz in 2012.
+
+Maintainers of this repository:
+
+* Tobias Schmidt <ts@soundcloud.com>
+
+The following individuals have contributed code to this repository
+(listed in alphabetical order):
+
+* Tobias Schmidt <ts@soundcloud.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Contributing
+
+Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
+
+* If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull
+  request, addressing (with `@...`) one or more of the maintainers
+  (see [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md)) in the description of the pull request.
+
+* If you plan to do something more involved, first discuss your ideas
+  on our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers).
+  This will avoid unnecessary work and surely give you and us a good deal
+  of inspiration.
+
+* Relevant coding style guidelines are the [Go Code Review
+  Comments](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments)
+  and the _Formatting and style_ section of Peter Bourgon's [Go: Best
+  Practices for Production
+  Environments](http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#formatting-and-style).
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+++ b/LICENSE
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-Apache License
+                                 Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
                         http://www.apache.org/licenses/
 
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Apache License
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@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Apache License
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@@ -199,4 +199,3 @@ Apache License
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+procfs provides functions to retrieve system, kernel and process
+metrics from the pseudo-filesystem proc.
+
+Copyright 2014-2015 The Prometheus Authors
+
+This product includes software developed at
+SoundCloud Ltd. (http://soundcloud.com/).