diff --git a/doc/html/footer.txt b/doc/html/footer.txt
index fef1f048b9f46b58426b4fb4961984a662a97661..c6087492e16aad7bdc7b588439f7dc41efa540de 100644
--- a/doc/html/footer.txt
+++ b/doc/html/footer.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@
 <div id="footer">
 For information about this page, contact
 <a href="mailto:slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov">slurm-dev@lists.llnl.gov</a>.
-<br>
+<br><br>
+SLURM 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 2 of the License, or (at your option)
+any later version.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.  
+<br><br>
 <a href="http://www.llnl.gov/"><img align=middle src="lll.gif" width="32" height="32" border="0"></a>
 UCRL-WEB-221422
 </div>