diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 5f714c91..e7a219a0 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ MANIFEST.in
 CHANGELOG.md
 test/
 # CRAN has weird LICENSE requirements
-LICENSE.txt
+LICENSE.md
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
deleted file mode 120000
index 85de3d45..00000000
--- a/LICENSE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-LICENSE.txt
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5c8ab63f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+YEAR: 2020
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Plotly, Inc.
diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.md
similarity index 97%
rename from LICENSE.txt
rename to LICENSE.md
index a626cd76..871d5039 100644
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2019 Plotly
+Copyright (c) 2020 Plotly
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index e8448a95..d74677d2 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ include dash_html_components/dash_html_components.min.js
 include dash_html_components/dash_html_components.min.js.map
 include dash_html_components/metadata.json
 include dash_html_components/package-info.json
-include LICENSE
+include LICENSE.md
 include README.md
-include package.json
\ No newline at end of file
+include package.json