diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d974e01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# This is the list of python-syntax authors for copyright purposes.
+#
+# This does not necessarily list everyone who has contributed code, since in
+# some cases, their employer may be the copyright holder. To see the full list
+# of contributors, see the revision history in source control.
+
+Andrea Riciputi
+Anton Butanaev
+Antony Lee
+Caleb Adamantine
+David Briscoe
+Dmitry Vasiliev
+Elizabeth Myers
+Ihor Gorobets
+Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
+John Eikenberry
+Joongi Kim
+lilydjwg
+Marc Weber
+Michael Doronin
+Neil Schemenauer
+Pedro Algarvio
+Victor Salgado
+Will Gray
+Yuri Habrusiev
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 348583e..bcaa459 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
 Copyright (c) 2002-2014 Dmitry Vasiliev <dima@hlabs.org>
+Copyright (c) 2017- the python-syntax authors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/syntax/python.vim b/syntax/python.vim
index 97959b3..ec36042 100644
--- a/syntax/python.vim
+++ b/syntax/python.vim
@@ -12,29 +12,6 @@
 " Please report bugs and feature requests to our issue tracker over at:
 " https://github.com/vim-python/python-syntax/issues
 "
-" Contributors
-" ============
-"
-" List of the contributors in alphabetical order:
-"
-"   Andrea Riciputi
-"   Anton Butanaev
-"   Antony Lee
-"   Caleb Adamantine
-"   David Briscoe
-"   Elizabeth Myers
-"   Ihor Gorobets
-"   Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-"   John Eikenberry
-"   Joongi Kim
-"   lilydjwg
-"   Marc Weber
-"   Michael Doronin
-"   Pedro Algarvio
-"   Victor Salgado
-"   Will Gray
-"   Yuri Habrusiev
-"
 " Options
 " =======
 "