diff --git a/COPYING.md b/COPYING.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 48d675c6..00000000
--- a/COPYING.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-This package is released under the 
-[GPL V3 license](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html),
-all files contain the disclaimer:
-
-    This program is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under
-    the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free 
-    Software Foundation, either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
-
-    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-    WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
-    or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
-    for complete details.
-
-The full text of the GPL licenses is in this directory as
-[License.txt](License.txt).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0803f068..d46bb509 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,3 +43,15 @@ copy of almost all OpenCores cores in Github under
 which is 
 [*outdated* and *not maintained*](https://github.com/freecores/w11/issues/1).
 ***Only [wfjm/w11](https://github.com/wfjm/w11) is maintained***.
+
+### License
+This project is released under the 
+[GPL V3 license](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html),
+all files contain the disclaimer:
+
+    This program is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
+    See Licence.txt in distribition directory for further details.
+
+The full text of the GPL license is in this directory as
+[License.txt](License.txt).