diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index a90ea939517d05f44eb4196dcdaba0f57aab15f2..216125d93c72a4e4ca4d5e351b7d1c5de9e1703c 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-Copyright GitLab B.V.
+Copyright (c) 2011-present GitLab B.V.
+
+Portions of this software are licensed as follows:
+
+* All content residing under the "doc/" directory of this repository is licensed under "Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0 license".
+* All content that resides under the "ee/" directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in "ee/LICENSE".
+* All client-side JavaScript (when served directly or after being compiled, arranged, augmented, or combined), is licensed under the "MIT Expat" license.
+* All third party components incorporated into the GitLab Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component.
+* Content outside of the above mentioned directories or restrictions above is available under the "MIT Expat" license as defined below.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 73bfcc988ccc017cec3f515477546243ba052af2..054e2d02461597bf17d889c8dd4cfeedd5ff95cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ To see how GitLab looks please see the [features page on our website](https://ab
 - Used by more than 100,000 organizations, GitLab is the most popular solution to manage Git repositories on-premises
 - Completely free and open source (MIT Expat license)
 
-## Hiring
-
-We're hiring developers, support people, and production engineers all the time, please see our [jobs page](https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/).
-
 ## Editions
 
 There are two editions of GitLab:
@@ -31,6 +27,15 @@ There are two editions of GitLab:
 - GitLab Community Edition (CE) is available freely under the MIT Expat license.
 - GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) includes [extra features](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#compare-options) that are more useful for organizations with more than 100 users. To use EE and get official support please [become a subscriber](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/).
 
+## Licensing
+
+See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for licensing information as it pertains to
+files in this repository.
+
+## Hiring
+
+We're hiring developers, support people, and production engineers all the time, please see our [jobs page](https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/).
+
 ## Website
 
 On [about.gitlab.com](https://about.gitlab.com/) you can find more information about:
@@ -58,14 +63,6 @@ There are various other options to install GitLab, please refer to the [installa
 
 GitLab is an open source project and we are very happy to accept community contributions. Please refer to [Contributing to GitLab page](https://about.gitlab.com/contributing/) for more details.
 
-## Licensing
-
-GitLab Community Edition (CE) is available freely under the MIT Expat license.
-
-All third party components incorporated into the GitLab Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component.
-
-All Documentation content that resides under the `doc/` directory of this repository is licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0.
-
 ## Install a development environment
 
 To work on GitLab itself, we recommend setting up your development environment with [the GitLab Development Kit](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit).