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@@ -2,3 +2,17 @@ Project IceStorm aims at documenting the bitstream format of Lattice iCE40
 FPGAs and providing simple tools for analyzing and creating bitstream files.
 
 See http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/ for more information.
+
+Most of Project IceStorm is licensed under the ISC license:
+
+#  Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
+#  purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
+#  copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
+#
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