diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b434e175..000000000
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-everything is released according to the 
-terms of the I2P license policy.  For the I2P SDK, 
-that means everything contained within this
-module is released into the public domain unless
-otherwise marked.  Alternate licenses that may be
-used include BSD (used by thecrypto's DSA, ElGamal,
-and SHA256 implementations), Cryptix (used by cryptix's
-AES implementation), and MIT.
diff --git a/debian/copyright.part1 b/debian/copyright.part1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..009410c0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/copyright.part1
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+This is the Debian package of I2P. The latest version of I2P can always be found at:
+	http://www.i2p2.de/
+
+I2P was originally developed by jrandom and others. The main developer now is zzz.
+See http://www.i2p2.de/team for a list of past and present developers.
+
+I2P is maintained in Monotone. The current development version may be checked out
+by issuing the following two commands:
+	mtn --db i2p.mtn dn init
+	mtn --db i2p.mtn co mtn.i2p2.de i2p.i2p
+
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index e9d457d81..9be700d77 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ build:
 	ln -s /usr/lib/i2p/i2prouter debian/tmp/usr/bin/i2prouter
 	rm debian/tmp/usr/lib/i2p/a
 	touch debian/build
+	mkdir -p debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/i2p
+	# Create the Debian copyright file, move the licenses dir,
+	# and delete all license files that are already in /usr/share/common-licenses/
+	cat debian/copyright.part1 LICENSE.txt > debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/i2p/copyright
+	mv debian/tmp/usr/lib/i2p/licenses debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/i2p
+	rm debian/tmp/usr/lib/i2p/LICENSE.txt
+	rm debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/i2p/licenses/LICENSE-Apache2.0.txt
+	rm debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/i2p/licenses/LICENSE-GPLv2.txt
+	rm debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/i2p/licenses/LICENSE-LGPLv2.1.txt
 
 binary: build
 	mkdir -p debian/tmp/DEBIAN