diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Anglo Korean
+
+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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+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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+SOFTWARE.
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 This package introduces data structures for representing RDF resources, and includes functions for parsing and serialization of RDF data.
 
 For complete documentation see [godoc](http://godoc.org/github.com/knakk/rdf).
+
+## This fork
+The source of this fork, https://github.com/knakk/rdf, has a number of characterstics which make it unattractive to us (and perhaps others).
+
+1. The licence is non-OCI, is untested in any way. Aleister Crowley is not a great source for legal policy
+   1. This repo, and other repos we fork to use, have been granted the MIT Licence. Relicencing seems to be within the spirit of the original licence but frankly: who even knows?