diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3359c92..958b213 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ See the [documentation](http://godoc.org/github.com/llgcode/draw2d) for more det
 Features
 --------
 
-Operations in draw2d include stroking and filling polygons, arcs, Bézier curves, drawing images and text rendering with truetype fonts. All drawing operations can be transformed by affine transformations (scale, rotation, translation).
+Operations in draw2d include stroking and filling polygons, arcs, Bézier curves, drawing images and text rendering with truetype fonts. All drawing operations can be transformed by affine transformations (scale, rotation, translation). draw2d is released under the BSD license.
 
 Package draw2d follows the conventions of the [HTML Canvas 2D Context](http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/) for coordinate system, angles, etc...
 
diff --git a/draw2d.go b/draw2d.go
index 2887bc8..a547c28 100644
--- a/draw2d.go
+++ b/draw2d.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 // for multiple output devices such as images (draw2d), pdf documents
 // (draw2dpdf) and opengl (draw2dopengl), which can also be used on the
 // google app engine. It can be used as a pure go Cairo alternative.
+// draw2d is released under the BSD license.
 //
 // Features
 //
diff --git a/samples/README.md b/samples/README.md
index 55d08f5..939c475 100644
--- a/samples/README.md
+++ b/samples/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 draw2d samples
 ==============
 
-Various Samples to using draw2d
+Various samples for using draw2d
 
 Using the image backend
 -----------------------