diff --git a/README.Rmd b/README.Rmd
index faef515..45fa19c 100644
--- a/README.Rmd
+++ b/README.Rmd
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ if (FALSE) {
 In most cases it is around 2x to 10x faster than `{jsonlite}` at both reading and writing JSON.
 
 It is a wrapper for the [`yyjson`](https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson) C library (v0.9.0 April 8, 2024).
-`yysjon` is MIT licensed - see `LICENSE-yyjson.txt` in this package for more details.
+`yyjson` is MIT licensed - see `LICENSE-yyjson.txt` in this package for more details - 
+`readLines(system.file('LICENSE-yyjson.txt', package = 'yyjsonr', mustWork = TRUE))`
 
 ### What's in the box
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 88e4054..f5df9d5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ In most cases it is around 2x to 10x faster than `{jsonlite}` at both
 reading and writing JSON.
 
 It is a wrapper for the [`yyjson`](https://github.com/ibireme/yyjson) C
-library (v0.9.0 April 8, 2024). `yysjon` is MIT licensed - see
-`LICENSE-yyjson.txt` in this package for more details.
+library (v0.9.0 April 8, 2024). `yyjson` is MIT licensed - see
+`LICENSE-yyjson.txt` in this package for more details -
+`readLines(system.file('LICENSE-yyjson.txt', package = 'yyjsonr', mustWork = TRUE))`
 
 ### What’s in the box