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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8cc6e5c..ac4a56d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ notice, instead of the full licence grant text:
   SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 As is conventional, this should be read as a licence grant.
 
+The Debian packaging files in the debian/ subdirectory are under a
+more permissive licence - the MIT licence, debian/MIT-LICENCE, as
+indicated in those files by:
+  SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+(This is useful only if (parts of) these files are copied elsewhere,
+since as provided by the GPL3, when the package is distributed as a
+work as a whole, these files are covered by the GPL3.)
+
 Contributions are accepted based on the git commit Signed-off-by
 convention, by which the contributors' certify their contributions
 according to the Developer Certificate of Origin version 1.1 - see