diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Date: 2014-08-23
 Author: Tianqi Chen, Tong He
 Maintainer: Tianqi Chen <tianqi.tchen@gmail.com>, Tong He <hetong007@gmail.com>
 Description: xgboost
-License: See LICENSE file in the project root of xgboost.
+License: file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost
 BugReports: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/issues
 Depends:
diff --git a/R-package/LICENSE b/R-package/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Copyright (c) 2014 by Tianqi Chen and Contributors 
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+    
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.