From 319d80c51072d4b80f09999287257bc5046820c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xtqqczze <45661989+xtqqczze@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:10:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add COPYRIGHT file and update license references

- move copyright information from LICENSE-* files to COPYRIGHT
- use some improved wording used by the Rust project
---
 COPYRIGHT      | 8 ++++++++
 LICENSE-APACHE | 3 ---
 LICENSE-MIT    | 3 ---
 README.md      | 6 +++++-
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 COPYRIGHT

diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..22d70ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Copyright (c) Michael Howell
+Copyright (c) uutils developers
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+<LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+option. All files in the project carrying such notice may not be
+copied, modified, or distributed except according to those terms.
diff --git a/LICENSE-APACHE b/LICENSE-APACHE
index 3d8493e..1b5ec8b 100644
--- a/LICENSE-APACHE
+++ b/LICENSE-APACHE
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-Copyright (c) Michael Howell
-Copyright (c) uutils developers
-
                               Apache License
                         Version 2.0, January 2004
                      http://www.apache.org/licenses/
diff --git a/LICENSE-MIT b/LICENSE-MIT
index ba40932..31aa793 100644
--- a/LICENSE-MIT
+++ b/LICENSE-MIT
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-Copyright (c) Michael Howell
-Copyright (c) uutils developers
-
 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
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5a6dc1e..4c1458d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -54,4 +54,8 @@ $ cargo run -- -u fruits_old.txt fruits_new.txt
 
 ## License
 
-diffutils is licensed under the MIT and Apache Licenses - see the `LICENSE-MIT` or `LICENSE-APACHE` files for details
+This project is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the
+Apache License (Version 2.0).
+
+See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE), [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and
+[COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details.