diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 33a936e3514..1c704dec7b3 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Files: *
 Copyright: (c) 2004-2010 by Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
 License: LGPL2.1 (see /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1)
 
+Files: src/client/hadoop/ceph
+Copyright: Copyright (C) New Dream Network and contributors
+License: Apache License v2
+
 Files: src/rbd.cc
 Copyright:
     Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
diff --git a/src/client/hadoop/ceph/LICENSE b/src/client/hadoop/ceph/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a0decda573
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/hadoop/ceph/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Unlike the rest of the code in this repository, this
+directory (src/client/hadoop) is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. This
+is for the obvious reason that we want to integrate it into the Apache Hadoop
+project.
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