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diff --git a/authors.txt b/authors.txt
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-Authors of Meson build system
-
-Meson was originally designed and created by Jussi Pakkanen.
-
-
-The following people have submitted patches for the project
-
-Peter Koval
-Masashi Fujita
-Juhani Simola
-Robin McCorkell
-Axel Waggershauser
-Igor Gnatenko
-Hemmo Nieminen
-mfrischknecht
-Matthew Bekkema
-Afief Halumi
-Thibault Saunier
-Mathieu Duponchelle
-Jouni Roivas
-Rafaël Kooi
-Marko Raatikainen
-German Diago Gomez
-Kyle Manna
-Haakon Sporsheim
-Wink Saville
-Yoav Alon
-Martin Ejdestig
-Rémi Nicole
-Damián Nohales
-Nirbheek Chauhan
-Nicolas Schneider
-Luke Adams
-Rogiel Sulzbach
-Tim-Philipp Müller
-Emmanuele Bassi
-Martin Hostettler
-Sam Thursfield
-Noam Meltzer
-Vincent Szolnoky
-Zhe Wang
-Wim Taymans
-Matthias Klumpp
-Elliott Sales de Andrade
-Patrick Griffis
-Iain Lane
-Daniel Brendle
-Franz Zapata
-Emanuele Aina
-Guillaume Poirier-Morency
-Scott D Phillips
-Gautier Pelloux-Prayer
-Alexandre Foley
-Jouni Kosonen
-Aurelien Jarno
-Mark Schulte
-Paulo Antonio Alvarez
-Olexa Bilaniuk
-Daniel Stone
-Marc-Antoine Perennou
-Matthieu Gautier
-Kseniia Vasilchuk
-Philipp Geier
-Mike Sinkovsky
-Dima Krasner
-Fabio Porcedda
-Rodrigo Lourenço
-Sebastian Stang
-Marc Becker
-Michal Sojka
-Aaron Small
-Joe Baldino
-Peter Harris
-Roger Boerdijk
-melak47
-Philipp Ittershagen
-Dylan Baker
-Aaron Plattner
-Jon Turney
-Wade Berrier
-Richard Hughes
-Rafael Fontenelle
-Michael Olbrich
-Ernestas Kulik
-Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
-Paolo Borelli
-Mike Gilbert
diff --git a/docs/markdown/legal.md b/docs/markdown/legal.md
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 # Legal information
 
-Meson is copyrighted by all members of the Meson development team. For details see the <tt>authors.txt</tt> file that comes with the source code. Meson is licensed under the [Apache 2 license].
+Meson is copyrighted by all members of the Meson development team. Meson is licensed under the [Apache 2 license].
 
 Meson is a registered trademark of Jussi Pakkanen.