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:
+
+* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com>
+
+The following individuals have contributed code to this repository
+(listed in alphabetical order):
+
+* Bernerd Schaefer <bj.schaefer@gmail.com>
+* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com>
+* Daniel Bornkessel <daniel@soundcloud.com>
+* Jeff Younker <jeff@drinktomi.com>
+* Julius Volz <julius@soundcloud.com>
+* Matt T. Proud <matt.proud@gmail.com>
+* 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
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
       same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
       identification within third-party archives.
 
-   Copyright 2013 Prometheus Team
+   Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
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+Prometheus instrumentation library for Go applications
+Copyright 2012-2015 The Prometheus Authors
+
+This product includes software developed at
+SoundCloud Ltd. (http://soundcloud.com/).
+
+
+The following components are included in this product:
+
+goautoneg
+http://bitbucket.org/ww/goautoneg
+Copyright 2011, Open Knowledge Foundation Ltd.
+See README.txt for license details.
+
+perks - a fork of https://github.com/bmizerany/perks
+https://github.com/beorn7/perks
+Copyright 2013-2015 Blake Mizerany, Björn Rabenstein
+See https://github.com/beorn7/perks/blob/master/README.md for license details.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ continue your journey:
 
 ##  Contributing
 
-See the contributing guidelines for the [Prometheus server](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+See the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).