diff --git a/legacy/ecore/COPYING b/legacy/ecore/COPYING
index dee3047c34..7b026149aa 100644
--- a/legacy/ecore/COPYING
+++ b/legacy/ecore/COPYING
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (C) 2000 Carsten Haitzler and various contributors (see AUTHORS)
+Copyright (C) 2000-2010 Carsten Haitzler and various contributors (see AUTHORS)
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
@@ -6,12 +6,25 @@ 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 of the Software, its documentation and marketing & publicity 
-materials, and acknowledgment shall be given in the documentation, materials
-and software packages that this Software was used.
-   
+all copies of the Software and its Copyright notices. In addition publicly
+documented acknowledgment must be given that this software has been used if no
+source code of this software is made available publicly. Making the source
+available publicly means including the source for this software with the
+distribution, or a method to get this software via some reasonable mechanism
+(electronic transfer via a network or media) as well as making an offer to
+supply the source on request. This Copyright notice serves as an offer to
+supply the source on on request as well. Instead of this, supplying
+acknowledgments of use of this software in either Copyright notices, Manuals,
+Publicity and Marketing documents or any documentation provided with any
+product containing this software. This License does not apply to any software
+that links to the libraries provided by this software (statically or
+dynamically), but only to the software provided.
+
+Please see the COPYING-PLAIN for a plain-english explanation of this notice
+and its intent.
+
 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