diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
-See LICENSE in this directory.
+For the basic conditions, see LICENSE in this directory.
+
+In reference to the default licensing condition in LICENSE,
+Enhancements in this distribution which do not have a separate licence
+statement are distributed only under the basic BSD conditions (1),
+(2), and (3), without additional permissions.