diff --git a/DISCLAIMER.md b/DISCLAIMER.md
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+This software has been approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey
+(USGS). Although the software has been subjected to rigorous review, the USGS
+reserves the right to update the software as needed pursuant to further analysis
+and review. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or the U.S.
+Government as to the functionality of the software and related material nor
+shall the fact of release constitute any such warranty. Furthermore, the
+software is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government
+shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or
+unauthorized use.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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-This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
-
-Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
-distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
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diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
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+Unless otherwise noted, this project is in the public domain in the
+United States.
+
+It contains materials that originally came from the United States
+Geological Survey, an agency of the United States Department of
+Interior.  For more information on their copyright policies, see
+https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits
+
+It also contains materials from contributors that have waived their
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+
+### No Copyright
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+You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for
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+### Other Information
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diff --git a/code.json b/code.json
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+[
+  {
+    "name": "ale",
+    "organization": "U.S. Geological Survey",
+    "description": "GitHub respository for the Abstraction Layer for Ephemerides package",
+    "version": "0.8.7",
+    "status": "Production",
+
+    "permissions": {
+      "usageType": "openSource",
+      "licenses": [
+        {
+          "name": "Public Domain, CC0-1.0",
+          "URL": "https://github.com/USGS-Astrogeology/ale/blob/master/LICENSE.md"
+        }
+      ]
+    },
+
+    "homepageURL": "https://github.com/USGS-Astrogeology/ale/releases/tag/0.8.7",
+    "downloadURL": "https://github.com/USGS-Astrogeology/ale/archive/refs/tags/0.8.7.zip",
+    "disclaimerURL": "https://github.com/USGS-Astrogeology/ale/blob/master/LICENSE.md",
+    "repositoryURL": "https://github.com/USGS-Astrogeology/ale",
+    "vcs": "git",
+
+    "laborHours": 40,
+
+    "tags": [
+      "Planetary",
+      "Remote Sensing",
+      "Data Processing",
+      "Ephemerides",
+      "Community Sensor Model"
+    ],
+
+    "languages": [
+      "C++",
+      "Python"
+    ],
+
+    "contact": {
+      "name": "Jesse Mapel",
+      "email": "jmapel@usgs.gov"
+    },
+
+    "date": {
+      "metadataLastUpdated": "2022-03-04"
+    }
+  }
+]