diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc6d123
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Copyright (c) 2015 Min RK, Florian Rathgeber, Michael McNeil Forbes
+
+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:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ff26fa1..e067835 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
       maintainer_email='michael.forbes+python@gmail.com',
       url='https://github.com/mforbes/nbstripout',
 
+      license="License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+
       description='Strips outputs from Jupyter and IPython notebooks',
       long_description=long_description,
       py_modules=['nbstripout'],
@@ -25,4 +27,13 @@
           'console_scripts': [
               'nbstripout = nbstripout:main'
           ]
-      })
+      },
+
+      classifiers=[
+          "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+          "Environment :: Other Environment",
+          "Framework :: IPython",
+          "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+          "Programming Language :: Python",
+          "Topic :: Software Development :: Version Control",
+      ])