diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bbbf1b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+The execnet package is released under the provisions of the Gnu Public
+License (GPL), version 2 or later.  
+
+See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ for more information.
+
+This package also contains some minor parts which 
+which are useable under the MIT license. 
+
+If you have questions and/or want to use parts of 
+the code under a different license than the GPL 
+please contact me. 
+
+holger krekel, January 2010, holger at merlinux eu 
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
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+++ b/MANIFEST.in
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+include CHANGELOG
+include LICENSE 
+include README.txt
+include setup.py
+graft testing
+exclude *.orig 
+exclude *.rej 
+recursive-exclude testing *.pyc *$py.class
+prune .svn 
+prune .hg 
diff --git a/readme.txt b/README.txt
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rename from readme.txt
rename to README.txt
diff --git a/xdist/__init__.py b/xdist/__init__.py
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--- a/xdist/__init__.py
+++ b/xdist/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 #
+__version__ = "1.0"
+