diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Datopian
+
+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
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+SOFTWARE.
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@@ -117,3 +117,7 @@ Can be deployed as a usual docker container. An environement for this microservi
 1. postgres database
 2. hasura
 3. environment variables (see [.env.example](/.env.example))
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](License) file for details