diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
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+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Copyright (c) Certifi Developers and contributors.
+See the repository history for individual contribution copyrights.
+
+The CA certificate bundle is derived from Mozilla's CA certificate store
+and is covered by the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (see LICENSE).
+
+The Python packaging of this project is released under the same terms as
+documented in LICENSE / MPL-2.0 as applicable to the bundled data and the
+MIT-style terms historically used for the Python module (see project history).
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ Certifi does not support any addition/removal or other modification of the
 CA trust store content. This project is intended to provide a reliable and
 highly portable root of trust to python deployments. Look to upstream projects
 for methods to use alternate trust.
+
+Copyright
+---------
+
+See ``COPYRIGHT`` and ``LICENSE`` for copyright and licensing information
+(issue #188).