diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
index d1438a5f68bfc..79127224d049b 100644
--- a/LICENSE.md
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -1,82 +1,26 @@
-The Julia language is licensed under the MIT License. The "language" consists
-of the compiler (the contents of src/), most of the standard library (base/),
-and some utilities (most of the rest of the files in this repository). See below
-for exceptions.
+MIT License
 
-> Copyright (c) 2009-2019: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah,
-> and other contributors:
->
-> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/contributors
->
-> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-> a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
-> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
-> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-> the following conditions:
->
-> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
-> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
->
-> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
-> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
-> LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
-> OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-> WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+Copyright (c) 2009-2021: Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral B. Shah, and other contributors: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/contributors
 
-Julia includes code from the following projects, which have their own licenses:
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
 
-- [crc32c.c](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17645167/implementing-sse-4-2s-crc32c-in-software) (CRC-32c checksum code by Mark Adler) [[ZLib](https://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib)].
-- [LDC](https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/LICENSE) (for ccall/cfunction ABI definitions) [BSD-3]. The portion of code that Julia uses from LDC is [BSD-3] licensed.
-- [LLVM](https://releases.llvm.org/3.9.0/LICENSE.TXT) (for parts of src/jitlayers.cpp and src/disasm.cpp) [BSD-3, effectively]
-- [MUSL](https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/COPYRIGHT) (for getopt implementation on Windows) [MIT]
-- [MINGW](https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-org-wsl/ci/legacy/tree/mingwrt/mingwex/dirname.c) (for dirname implementation on Windows) [MIT]
-- [NetBSD](https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html) (for setjmp, longjmp, and strptime implementations on Windows) [BSD-3]
-- [Python](https://docs.python.org/3/license.html) (for strtod and joinpath implementation on Windows) [BSD-3, effectively]
-- [Google Benchmark](https://github.com/google/benchmark) (for cyclecount implementation) [Apache 2.0]
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 
-The following components included in Julia `Base` have their own separate licenses:
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-- base/ryu/* [Boost] (see [ryu](https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/blob/master/LICENSE-Boost))
-- base/grisu/* [BSD-3] (see [double-conversion](https://github.com/google/double-conversion/blob/master/LICENSE))
-- base/special/{exp,rem_pio2,hyperbolic}.jl [Freely distributable with preserved copyright notice] (see [FDLIBM](https://www.netlib.org/fdlibm))
+end of terms and conditions
 
-The Julia language links to the following external libraries, which have their
-own licenses:
-
-- [FEMTOLISP](https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp) [BSD-3]
-- [LIBUNWIND](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunwind.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSE;hb=master) [MIT]
-- [LIBUV](https://github.com/joyent/libuv/blob/master/LICENSE) [MIT]
-- [LLVM](https://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/LICENSE.TXT) [BSD-3, effectively]
-- [UTF8PROC](https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc) [MIT]
-
-Julia's `stdlib` uses the following external libraries, which have their own licenses:
-
-- [DSFMT](http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/LICENSE.txt) [BSD-3]
-- [OPENLIBM](https://github.com/JuliaMath/openlibm/blob/master/LICENSE.md) [MIT, BSD-2, ISC]
-- [GMP](https://gmplib.org/manual/Copying.html#Copying) [LGPL3+ or GPL2+]
-- [LIBGIT2](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/COPYING) [GPL2+ with unlimited linking exception]
-- [CURL](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html) [MIT/X derivative]
-- [LIBSSH2](https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/blob/master/COPYING) [BSD-3]
-- [MBEDTLS](https://tls.mbed.org/how-to-get) [either GPLv2 or Apache 2.0]
-- [MPFR](https://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Copying) [LGPL3+]
-- [OPENBLAS](https://raw.github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/master/LICENSE) [BSD-3]
-- [LAPACK](https://netlib.org/lapack/LICENSE.txt) [BSD-3]
-- [PCRE](https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt) [BSD-3]
-- [SUITESPARSE](http://suitesparse.com) [mix of LGPL2+ and GPL2+; see individual module licenses]
-
-Julia's build process uses the following external tools:
-
-- [PATCHELF](https://nixos.org/patchelf.html)
-- [OBJCONV](https://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv)
-
-Julia bundles the following external programs and libraries:
-
-- [7-Zip](https://www.7-zip.org/license.txt)
-- [ZLIB](https://zlib.net/zlib_license.html)
-
-On some platforms, distributions of Julia contain SSL certificate authority certificates,
-released under the [Mozilla Public License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License).
+Please see THIRDPARTY.md for license information for other software used in this project.
diff --git a/THIRDPARTY.md b/THIRDPARTY.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..87304437183d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/THIRDPARTY.md
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+The Julia language is licensed under the MIT License (see `LICENSE.md`). The "language" consists
+of the compiler (the contents of src/), most of the standard library (base/),
+and some utilities (most of the rest of the files in this repository). See below
+for exceptions.
+
+- [crc32c.c](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17645167/implementing-sse-4-2s-crc32c-in-software) (CRC-32c checksum code by Mark Adler) [[ZLib](https://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib)].
+- [LDC](https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/master/LICENSE) (for ccall/cfunction ABI definitions) [BSD-3]. The portion of code that Julia uses from LDC is [BSD-3] licensed.
+- [LLVM](https://releases.llvm.org/3.9.0/LICENSE.TXT) (for parts of src/jitlayers.cpp and src/disasm.cpp) [BSD-3, effectively]
+- [MUSL](https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/COPYRIGHT) (for getopt implementation on Windows) [MIT]
+- [MINGW](https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/mingw-org-wsl/ci/legacy/tree/mingwrt/mingwex/dirname.c) (for dirname implementation on Windows) [MIT]
+- [NetBSD](https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html) (for setjmp, longjmp, and strptime implementations on Windows) [BSD-3]
+- [Python](https://docs.python.org/3/license.html) (for strtod and joinpath implementation on Windows) [BSD-3, effectively]
+- [Google Benchmark](https://github.com/google/benchmark) (for cyclecount implementation) [Apache 2.0]
+
+The following components included in Julia `Base` have their own separate licenses:
+
+- base/ryu/* [Boost] (see [ryu](https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/blob/master/LICENSE-Boost))
+- base/grisu/* [BSD-3] (see [double-conversion](https://github.com/google/double-conversion/blob/master/LICENSE))
+- base/special/{exp,rem_pio2,hyperbolic}.jl [Freely distributable with preserved copyright notice] (see [FDLIBM](https://www.netlib.org/fdlibm))
+
+The Julia language links to the following external libraries, which have their
+own licenses:
+
+- [FEMTOLISP](https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp) [BSD-3]
+- [LIBUNWIND](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunwind.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSE;hb=master) [MIT]
+- [LIBUV](https://github.com/joyent/libuv/blob/master/LICENSE) [MIT]
+- [LLVM](https://releases.llvm.org/6.0.0/LICENSE.TXT) [BSD-3, effectively]
+- [UTF8PROC](https://github.com/JuliaStrings/utf8proc) [MIT]
+
+Julia's `stdlib` uses the following external libraries, which have their own licenses:
+
+- [DSFMT](http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/SFMT/LICENSE.txt) [BSD-3]
+- [OPENLIBM](https://github.com/JuliaMath/openlibm/blob/master/LICENSE.md) [MIT, BSD-2, ISC]
+- [GMP](https://gmplib.org/manual/Copying.html#Copying) [LGPL3+ or GPL2+]
+- [LIBGIT2](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/COPYING) [GPL2+ with unlimited linking exception]
+- [CURL](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html) [MIT/X derivative]
+- [LIBSSH2](https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/blob/master/COPYING) [BSD-3]
+- [MBEDTLS](https://tls.mbed.org/how-to-get) [either GPLv2 or Apache 2.0]
+- [MPFR](https://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Copying) [LGPL3+]
+- [OPENBLAS](https://raw.github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/master/LICENSE) [BSD-3]
+- [LAPACK](https://netlib.org/lapack/LICENSE.txt) [BSD-3]
+- [PCRE](https://www.pcre.org/licence.txt) [BSD-3]
+- [SUITESPARSE](http://suitesparse.com) [mix of LGPL2+ and GPL2+; see individual module licenses]
+
+Julia's build process uses the following external tools:
+
+- [PATCHELF](https://nixos.org/patchelf.html)
+- [OBJCONV](https://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv)
+
+Julia bundles the following external programs and libraries:
+
+- [7-Zip](https://www.7-zip.org/license.txt)
+- [ZLIB](https://zlib.net/zlib_license.html)
+
+On some platforms, distributions of Julia contain SSL certificate authority certificates,
+released under the [Mozilla Public License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License).