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diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 714f5945c1f..19ed03acc96 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 Mono is made up of many pieces of code, all of them open source, but
 different pieces of Mono use different licensing terms.
 
-For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
+For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@xamarin.com
 
 * Dual Licensing
 
 	Parts of Mono are dual licensed, they are available to the
 	public in GPL or LGPL forms, but we also offer those pieces
-	under commercial terms from Novell for when the GPL and the
-	LGPL are not suitable.
+	under commercial terms from Xamarin for the cases wher the GPL
+	and the LGPL are not suitable.
 
 	We have tried to pick the licenses that will maximize adoption
 	of Mono, so we tend to use the MIT X11 or LGPL liceses.
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
 	Contributions for other modules should be under the same license
 	terms as the rest of the module, or under MIT X11 terms. 
 
-	If you ned further information, please contact mono@novell.com
+	For the actual license links in the Mono distribution see the
+	bottom of this file.
+
+	If you need further information, please contact mono@xamarin.com
 
 * The Modules
 
@@ -30,25 +33,55 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
 
 	This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses. 
 
-	The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but 
-	gives Novell the flexibility to relicense the code for embedded
-	systems or commercial settings where the LGPL can not be used. 
-
-	Contact mono@novell.com for details on obtaining the Mono
+	The LGPL ensures that Mono can be used in most scenarios, but
+	gives Xamarin the flexibility to relicense the code for
+	embedded systems, static linking or commercial settings where
+	the LGPL can not be used.
+
+	We consider non-LGPL use instances where you use this on an
+	embedded system where the end user is not able to upgrade the
+	Mono VM or Moonlight installation or distribution that is part
+	of your product (Section 6 and 7), you would have to obtain a
+	commercial license from Xamarin (consider software burned into
+	a ROM, systems where end users would not be able to upgrade,
+	an embedded console, a game console that imposes limitations
+	on the distribution and access to the code, a phone platform
+	that prevents end users from upgrading Moonlight).
+	
+	Contact mono@xamarin.com for details on obtaining the Mono
 	runtime under other terms.
 
+** mono/support: MonoPosixHelper and support code
+
+	This code is dual licensed under the LGPL or commercial licenses, with
+	the same guidelines as mono/mono code.
+
+	The ZLib files are included under a "new BSD"-style license.
+
 ** mono/eglib: Mono's X11 glib implementation
 
 	This is a minimal subset of glib that is to be licensed under
 	the terms of the MIT X11, this means that this code can be
 	used for any purposes by anyone.
 
+** mono/metadata/sgen*: Mono's Copying Collector
+
+	This new garbage collector is licensed under the terms of
+	the MIT X11 license, in hopes that the GC could be reused
+	by third party projects, follows the same spirit than the
+	Boehm GC.
+
+** mono/arch/*/XXX-codegen.h
+
+	This are C macros that are useful when generating native
+	code on various platforms.   This code is MIT X11 licensed.
+
 ** mcs/mcs, mcs/gmcs
 
   	The C# Compilers (1.0 and 2.0)
 
-	These compilers are dual licensed under the GPL and commercial
-	terms.
+	These compilers are dual licensed under the GPL and MIT X11
+	license terms.
 
 ** tests
 
@@ -75,6 +108,13 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
             ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib, GPL with exceptions.
 		See: mcs/class/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib/README
 
+** mcs/class/System.Core/System/TimeZoneInfo.Android.cs
+
+	This is a port of Apache 2.0-licensed Android code, and thus is
+	licensed under the Apache 2.0 license:
+
+	    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
 	     
 ** mcs/tools
 
@@ -90,6 +130,10 @@ For comments, corrections and updates, please contact mono@novell.com
 
 	Manual pages and Mono documentation are covered by the MIT X11 license. 
 
+* samples
+
+	The code in the "samples" directory is released under the MIT X11 license.
+
 * The Licenses
 
 	These are the licenses used in Mono, the files are located: