diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 370aa31..044eb9e 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2025 trey
+Copyright (c) 2025 Trey Blancher
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 717ff29..4f57ad7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 # dotfiles
 
-Trey's dotfiles he's willing to share publicly
\ No newline at end of file
+Trey's dotfiles he's willing to share publicly.
+
+Note, most of the subdirectories in this dotfiles repo are submodules, that have their own license files.  In general, the configuration files which do not contain shell, Python, or other interpreted or compiled code are subject to the standard MIT license, which this topfile _dotfiles_ repository adopts as a whole.
+
+Executable files typically have the GPLv3.0-or-later license, unless otherwise stated.