diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 Long Chen
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to 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 or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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+SOFTWARE.
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 # Zabbix-MongoDB
+A Zabbix plugin for monitoring MongoDB.
 
-**Installation**
-
+# Installation
 1. Import the mongodb template to zabbix and link it to the zabbix mongodb host.
 2. Copy the scripts to mongodb host in /usr/local/bin .
 3. Copy mongodb zabbix agent configuration to /etc/zabbix-agent/zabbix_agentd.d and restart zabbix agent.
@@ -62,3 +62,6 @@ The following metrics are collected on mongodb version 3.0 by using python mongo
 - mongodb.stats.dataSize[db]
 - mongodb.stats.indexSize[db]
 - mongodb.stats.nsSizeMB[db]
+
+# License
+[MIT](/LICENSE.md)