diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 803823b81cd..5b46f6b805e 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-Copyright © Microsoft Corp.
+Copyright © Microsoft Corp 2012-2014, Yahoo! Inc. 2007-2012, and many
+individual contributors.
 
 All rights reserved.
 
@@ -43,69 +44,3 @@ ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
 (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
 
 SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
- 
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-Based on or incorporating material from the following project(s):
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-Vowpal Wabbit project, available at http://hunch.net/~vw/,
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-Copyright © 2012, Yahoo! Inc.
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-Copyright © 2012, John Langford
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-All rights reserved.
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-Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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