diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index d4aee63c..b37f78d2 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 This package, the EXT2 filesystem utilities, are made available under
-the GNU Public License, with the exception of the lib/uuid directory
-which is made available under a BSD-style license.  Please see
-lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for the license for the files
-comprising the libuuid library.
+the GNU Public License version 2, with the exception of the lib/uuid
+directory which is made available under a BSD-style license and the
+lib/et and lib/ss libraries which are made available under an
+MIT-style license.  Please see lib/uuid/COPYING for more details for
+the license for the files comprising the libuuid library, and the
+source file headers of the libet and libss libraries for more
+information.
 
 However, I request that if the version string in the file version.h
 contains the string "pre-", or "WIP" that this version of e2fsprogs be