diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index c00c17d69ad58e284b49729aab22047ae2c611f4..216125d93c72a4e4ca4d5e351b7d1c5de9e1703c 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 Copyright (c) 2011-present GitLab B.V.
 
-Portions of this software under the "ee" directory are licensed as defined by
-the "ee/LICENSE" file.
+Portions of this software are licensed as follows:
+
+* All content residing under the "doc/" directory of this repository is licensed under "Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0 license".
+* All content that resides under the "ee/" directory of this repository, if that directory exists, is licensed under the license defined in "ee/LICENSE".
+* All client-side JavaScript (when served directly or after being compiled, arranged, augmented, or combined), is licensed under the "MIT Expat" license.
+* All third party components incorporated into the GitLab Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component.
+* Content outside of the above mentioned directories or restrictions above is available under the "MIT Expat" license as defined below.
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2acdf62f2f9843658c27b1391da09f7a68155083..f8a337d421074fd03e58f77e79b4662568a1cb0e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,15 +37,8 @@ There are two editions of GitLab:
 
 ## Licensing
 
-GitLab Community Edition (CE) is available freely under the MIT Expat license.
-
-All content that resides under the `ee/` directory of this repository (if it exists), is
-part of GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) and is licensed under the license defined
-in `ee/LICENSE`.
-
-All third party components incorporated into the GitLab Software are licensed under the original license provided by the owner of the applicable component.
-
-All Documentation content that resides under the `doc/` directory of this repository is licensed under Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0.
+See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for licensing information as it pertains to
+files in this repository.
 
 ## Hiring
 
diff --git a/ee/LICENSE b/ee/LICENSE
index f06ec5ecb7c7ab3257c5fa6d9e67f15999f25fd6..35377145b76f678be991e4197b6f0411aab974e7 100644
--- a/ee/LICENSE
+++ b/ee/LICENSE
@@ -24,15 +24,12 @@ foregoing, it is forbidden to copy, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
 and/or sell the Software.
 
 This EE License applies only to the part of this Software that is not
-distributed as part of GitLab Community Edition (CE), and that is not an image,
-font, cascading stylesheet (CSS), or a file which is served as client-side
-JavaScript, either directly or after having been compiled, arranged, augmented,
-or combined into client-side JavaScript. Any part of this Software distributed
-as part of GitLab CE or that is an image, font, cascading stylesheet (CSS), a
-file which produces or is compiled, arranged, augmented, or combined into
-client-side JavaScript, in whole or in part, is copyrighted under the MIT Expat
-license. The full text of this EE License shall be included in all copies or
-substantial portions of the Software.
+distributed as part of GitLab Community Edition (CE). Any part of this Software
+distributed as part of GitLab CE or is served client-side as an image, font,
+cascading stylesheet (CSS), file which produces or is compiled, arranged,
+augmented, or combined into client-side JavaScript, in whole or in part, is
+copyrighted under the MIT Expat license. The full text of this EE License shall
+be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,