diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1e5f9081e0..aab3e5b243 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2003-08-15  Sven Neumann  <neo@bender>
+
+	* LICENSE: cosmetics.
+	
+	* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): include LICENSE.
+
+	* libgimp/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): include COPYING.
+
 2003-08-14  Helvetix Victorinox  <helvetix@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/composite/make-installer.py: generate smaller tables and
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 65faf7f5bf..45576b23dc 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
-* The GIMP application core, and other portions of the
-official GIMP distribution not explicitly licensed otherwise,
-are licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see
-the 'COPYING' file in this directory for details.
+* The GIMP application core, and other portions of the official GIMP
+  distribution not explicitly licensed otherwise, are licensed under
+  the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see the 'COPYING' file in this
+  directory for details.
 
 [ The below explicit exemption, we hope, clears up the GIMP
-developers' position concerning an ambiguity with the GNU General
-Public License concerning what constitutes a 'mere aggregation'
-versus a combined or derived work.  The intention is to make
-it clear that arbitrarily-licensed programs such as GIMP plug-ins
-do not automatically assume the GNU General Public License (GPL)
-themselves simply because of their invokation of (or by) procedures
-implemented in GPL-licensed code, via libgimp or a similar
-interface to methods provided by the pdb: ]
+  developers' position concerning an ambiguity with the GNU General
+  Public License concerning what constitutes a 'mere aggregation'
+  versus a combined or derived work.  The intention is to make it
+  clear that arbitrarily-licensed programs such as GIMP plug-ins do
+  not automatically assume the GNU General Public License (GPL)
+  themselves simply because of their invokation of (or by) procedures
+  implemented in GPL-licensed code, via libgimp or a similar interface
+  to methods provided by the pdb: ]
 
 * If you create a program which invokes (or provides) methods within
-(or for) the GPL GIMP application core through the medium of libgimp
-or another implementation of the 'procedural database' (pdb) serial
-protocol, then the GIMP developers' position is that this is a 'mere
-aggregation' of the program invoking the method and the program
-implementing the method as per section 2 of the GNU General Public
-License.
+  (or for) the GPL GIMP application core through the medium of libgimp
+  or another implementation of the 'procedural database' (pdb) serial
+  protocol, then the GIMP developers' position is that this is a 'mere
+  aggregation' of the program invoking the method and the program
+  implementing the method as per section 2 of the GNU General Public
+  License.
 
-* 'libgimp' is licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
--- see the 'COPYING' file in the libgimp/ directory for details.
+* 'libgimp' and the other GIMP libraries are licensed under the
+  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE -- see the 'COPYING' file in the
+  libgimp directory for details.
 
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 98441bacd2..0f17665960 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	ChangeLog.pre-1-2	\
 	HACKING			\
 	INSTALL			\
+	LICENSE			\
 	MAINTAINERS		\
 	NEWS			\
 	PLUGIN_MAINTAINERS	\
diff --git a/libgimp/Makefile.am b/libgimp/Makefile.am
index e733a3a70d..f4f64efabc 100644
--- a/libgimp/Makefile.am
+++ b/libgimp/Makefile.am
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ INCLUDES = \
 	-I$(includedir)
 
 EXTRA_DIST = \
-	makefile.msc		\
-	gimp.def		\
+	COPYING		\
+	makefile.msc	\
+	gimp.def	\
 	gimpui.def
 
 lib_LTLIBRARIES = libgimp-1.3.la libgimpui-1.3.la