diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 57b5a64f..9cf0936d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - [[#457]](https://github.com/nf-core/smrnaseq/pull/457) - QC all input [fasta files and clean them](https://github.com/nf-core/smrnaseq/issues/455).
 - [[#459]](https://github.com/nf-core/smrnaseq/pull/459) - Update modules and subworkflows [and fix linting](https://github.com/nf-core/smrnaseq/issues/458).
 - [[#462]](https://github.com/nf-core/smrnaseq/pull/462) - Remove automatic wrapping of fasta files by `seqkit replace`. Minor documentation updates.
+- [[#465]](https://github.com/nf-core/smrnaseq/issues/465) - Added proper licences and authorship information to scripts in `bin` folder
 
 ### Software dependencies
 
diff --git a/bin/collapse_mirtop.r b/bin/collapse_mirtop.r
index 6b5c77f1..ed885f63 100755
--- a/bin/collapse_mirtop.r
+++ b/bin/collapse_mirtop.r
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env Rscript
+
+# Written by Lorena Pantano and released under the MIT license.
+
 library(data.table)
 # Command line arguments
 args = commandArgs(trailingOnly=TRUE)
diff --git a/bin/edgeR_miRBase.r b/bin/edgeR_miRBase.r
index 8f8233bc..c904b894 100755
--- a/bin/edgeR_miRBase.r
+++ b/bin/edgeR_miRBase.r
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env Rscript
 
+# Originally written by Phil Ewels and Chuan Wang and released under the MIT license.
+# Contributions by Alexander Peltzer, Anabella Trigila, James Fellows Yates, Sarah Djebali, Kevin Menden, Konrad Stawinski and Lorena Pantano also released under the MIT license.
+
 # Command line arguments
 args = commandArgs(trailingOnly=TRUE)