diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
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+The Prometheus project was started by Matt T. Proud (emeritus) and
+Julius Volz in 2012.
+
+Maintainers of this repository:
+
+* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com>
+
+The following individuals have contributed code to this repository
+(listed in alphabetical order):
+
+* Bernerd Schaefer <bj.schaefer@gmail.com>
+* Björn Rabenstein <beorn@soundcloud.com>
+* Johannes 'fish' Ziemke <github@freigeist.org>
+* Julius Volz <julius@soundcloud.com>
+* Tobias Schmidt <ts@soundcloud.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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+# Contributing
+
+Prometheus uses GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
+
+* If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull
+  request, addressing (with `@...`) one or more of the maintainers
+  (see [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md)) in the description of the pull request.
+
+* If you plan to do something more involved, first discuss your ideas
+  on our [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/prometheus-developers).
+  This will avoid unnecessary work and surely give you and us a good deal
+  of inspiration.
+
+* Relevant coding style guidelines are the [Go Code Review
+  Comments](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments)
+  and the _Formatting and style_ section of Peter Bourgon's [Go: Best
+  Practices for Production
+  Environments](http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#formatting-and-style).
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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       same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
       identification within third-party archives.
 
-   Copyright 2013 Prometheus Team
+   Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
 
    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
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+Pushgateway for ephemeral and batch jobs
+Copyright 2014-2015 The Prometheus Authors
+
+This product includes software developed at
+SoundCloud Ltd. (http://soundcloud.com/).