diff --git a/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/AUTHORS b/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5323b685cae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Authors ordered by first contribution.
+Ryan Dahl <ry@tinyclouds.org>
+Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@hinegardner.org>
+Sergey Shepelev <temotor@gmail.com>
+Joe Damato <ice799@gmail.com>
+tomika <tomika_nospam@freemail.hu>
+Phoenix Sol <phoenix@burninglabs.com>
+Cliff Frey <cliff@meraki.com>
+Ewen Cheslack-Postava <ewencp@cs.stanford.edu>
+Santiago Gala <sgala@apache.org>
+Tim Becker <tim.becker@syngenio.de>
+Jeff Terrace <jterrace@gmail.com>
+Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
+Nathan Rajlich <nathan@tootallnate.net>
+Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
+Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
+Tim Becker <tim.becker@kuriositaet.de>
+Sean Cunningham <sean.cunningham@mandiant.com>
+Peter Griess <pg@std.in>
+Salman Haq <salman.haq@asti-usa.com>
+Cliff Frey <clifffrey@gmail.com>
+Jon Kolb <jon@b0g.us>
+Fouad Mardini <f.mardini@gmail.com>
+Paul Querna <pquerna@apache.org>
+Felix Geisendörfer <felix@debuggable.com>
+koichik <koichik@improvement.jp>
+Andre Caron <andre.l.caron@gmail.com>
+Ivo Raisr <ivosh@ivosh.net>
+James McLaughlin <jamie@lacewing-project.org>
+David Gwynne <loki@animata.net>
+Thomas LE ROUX <thomas@november-eleven.fr>
+Randy Rizun <rrizun@ortivawireless.com>
+Andre Louis Caron <andre.louis.caron@usherbrooke.ca>
+Simon Zimmermann <simonz05@gmail.com>
+Erik Dubbelboer <erik@dubbelboer.com>
+Martell Malone <martellmalone@gmail.com>
+Bertrand Paquet <bpaquet@octo.com>
+BogDan Vatra <bogdan@kde.org>
+Peter Faiman <peter@thepicard.org>
+Corey Richardson <corey@octayn.net>
+Tóth Tamás <tomika_nospam@freemail.hu>
+Cam Swords <cam.swords@gmail.com>
+Chris Dickinson <christopher.s.dickinson@gmail.com>
+Uli Köhler <ukoehler@btronik.de>
+Charlie Somerville <charlie@charliesomerville.com>
+Patrik Stutz <patrik.stutz@gmail.com>
+Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com>
+runner <runner.mei@gmail.com>
+Alexis Campailla <alexis@janeasystems.com>
+David Wragg <david@wragg.org>
+Vinnie Falco <vinnie.falco@gmail.com>
+Alex Butum <alexbutum@linux.com>
+Rex Feng <rexfeng@gmail.com>
+Alex Kocharin <alex@kocharin.ru>
+Mark Koopman <markmontymark@yahoo.com>
+Helge Heß <me@helgehess.eu>
+Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@gmail.com>
+George Miroshnykov <george.miroshnykov@gmail.com>
+Maciej Małecki <me@mmalecki.com>
+Marc O'Morain <github.com@marcomorain.com>
+Jeff Pinner <jpinner@twitter.com>
+Timothy J Fontaine <tjfontaine@gmail.com>
+Akagi201 <akagi201@gmail.com>
+Romain Giraud <giraud.romain@gmail.com>
+Jay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>
+Arne Steen <Arne.Steen@gmx.de>
+Kjell Schubert <kjell.schubert@gmail.com>
+Olivier Mengué <dolmen@cpan.org>
diff --git a/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/LICENSE-MIT b/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/LICENSE-MIT
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1ec0ab4e174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/LICENSE-MIT
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.
+
+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 Software without restriction, including without limitation the
+rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
+sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+IN THE SOFTWARE. 
diff --git a/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/update_and_patch_http_parser.sh b/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/update_and_patch_http_parser.sh
index e4b3a0271e0..a9dc28ec897 100755
--- a/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/update_and_patch_http_parser.sh
+++ b/Sources/CNIOHTTPParser/update_and_patch_http_parser.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ case "$(uname -s)" in
         ;;
 esac
 
+if ! hash ${sed} 2>/dev/null; then
+    echo "You need sed \"${sed}\" to run this script ..."
+    echo
+    echo "On macOS: brew install gnu-sed"
+    exit 42
+fi
+
+for f in LICENSE-MIT AUTHORS; do
+    curl -o "${f}" \
+         -Ls "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nodejs/http-parser/master/${f}"
+done
+
 for f in http_parser.c http_parser.h; do
     ( echo "/* Additional changes for SwiftNIO:"
       echo "    - prefixed all symbols by 'c_nio_'"
@@ -49,6 +61,9 @@ for f in http_parser.c http_parser.h; do
         -e 's/\b\(http_parser_version\)/c_nio_\1/g' \
         -e 's/\b\(http_should_keep_alive\)/c_nio_\1/g' \
         "$here/c_nio_$f"
+done
+
+mv "$here/c_nio_http_parser.h" "$here/include/c_nio_http_parser.h"
 
 tmp=$(mktemp -d /tmp/.test_compile_XXXXXX)
 
@@ -61,6 +76,4 @@ test 0 -eq $num_non_nio || {
 }
 
 rm -rf "$tmp"
-done
 
-mv "$here/c_nio_http_parser.h" "$here/include/c_nio_http_parser.h"