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   <p>Smack comes with APIs for easy machine-to-machine communication. You can set any number of properties on each message, including properties that are Java objects.</p>
 
-  <p>Smack is open-source under the Apache License 2.0, which means you can incorporate Smack into your commercial or non-commercial applications.</p>
+  <h2>License</h2>
+
+  <p>Smack is open-source and most parts are under the Apache License
+  2.0, which means you can incorporate Smack into your commercial or
+  non-commercial applications. Some parts of Smack may be under a
+  different open-source license. Please refer to the individual
+  subprojects for their license statement.</p>
+
+  <p>Note that the Apache License 2.0 requires that the contents of a
+  NOICE text file are shown "…within a display generated by the
+  Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally
+  appear.". Smack comes with such a NOTICE file. The content of
+  Smack's NOTICE file can conveniently be retrieved using
+  {@link org.jivesoftware.smack.Smack#getNoticeStream}.</p>
 
   <h2>About XMPP</h2>