diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a694c9699a986b9adf1f6cb8a18a6e923e47ed9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+LICENSE
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index e4a1618a1e3eddb6803aae196d306d659e92a036..89387462cc4a0d120dfc5604fe477e107f7a47e7 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST = util/sunf95preproc-wrapper \
 	scripts/generate_doc.pl \
 	scripts/makef90depends \
 	scripts/reconfigure \
-	scripts/reconfigure-mistral
+	scripts/reconfigure-mistral \
+	LICENSE COPYING
 
 
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