diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 98596361..67e2b476 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 ^.*\.Rproj$
 ^\.Rproj\.user$
-^\..*
-^appveyor\.yml$
+
 ^man-roxygen
 
+^\..*
 .*\.md
+^README.*
+^appveyor\.yml$
 ^codecov\.R
+^LICENSE$
 
 ^inst/.*\.R$
 
@@ -16,6 +19,4 @@
 ^vignettes/cache/.*
 ^vignettes/figure/.*
 
-^README.*
-
 # ^tests/.*\.rds$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a7da95c5..33bee2b7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description: Time series clustering along with optimized techniques related
     custom distance measures and centroid definitions.
 URL: https://github.com/asardaes/dtwclust
 BugReports: https://github.com/asardaes/dtwclust/issues
-License: GPL-3 + file LICENSE
+License: GPL-3
 LazyData: TRUE
 NeedsCompilation: yes
 SystemRequirements: C++11
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 7e687378..94a9ed02 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,25 +1,3 @@
-dtwclust: Time Series Clustering Along With Optimizations for DTW
-Copyright (C) 2015-2017  Alexis Sarda-Espinosa
-
-This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-The years in the copyright notice above are to be understood as a
-range, including the years on both ends.
-
-GPLv3
-==========================
-
                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                        Version 3, 29 June 2007
 
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index f327bea0..bead6044 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ## Update to version 4.0.0
+RESUBMIT: removed "file LICENSE" directive from description.
 Several optimizations and bug fixes.
 Some of the new functionality requires new dependencies,
 and some previous dependencies were dropped.
diff --git a/inst/COPYRIGHT.txt b/inst/COPYRIGHT.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3290f0b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inst/COPYRIGHT.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+dtwclust: Time Series Clustering Along With Optimizations for DTW
+Copyright (C) 2015-2017  Alexis Sarda-Espinosa
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+The years in the copyright notice above are to be understood as a
+range, including the years on both ends.