-Check the project website at https://www.icinga.com for status updates. Join the
-[community channels](https://www.icinga.com/community/get-involved/) for questions
-or ask an Icinga partner for [professional support](https://www.icinga.com/services/support/).
+Check the [project website](https://icinga.com) for status updates. Join the
+[community channels](https://icinga.com/community/) for questions
+or ask an Icinga partner for [professional support](https://icinga.com/support/).
+
+## License
+
+Icinga 2 and the Icinga 2 documentation are licensed under the terms of the GNU
+General Public License Version 2, you will find a copy of this license in the
+COPYING file included in the source package.
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
+permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
+OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
+individual source file, and distribute linked combinations including
+the two.
+
+You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all
+of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify file(s) with this
+exception, you may extend this exception to your version of the
+file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
+so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you delete
+this exception statement from all source files in the program, then
+also delete it here.