diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
deleted file mode 100644
index 0422e7c0a..000000000
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-The Spyder Project Contributors are composed of:
-
-* Pierre Raybaut <pierre.raybaut@gmail.com> (Original Spyder author).
-* Carlos Cordoba <ccordoba12@gmail.com> (Current maintainer).
-* All other developers who have contributed to this repository
-  and/or the original documentation on the main spyder-ide/spyder repository.
diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..054a570e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+The Spyder Doc Contributors are composed of:
+
+* Pierre Raybaut <pierre.raybaut@gmail.com> (Original Spyder author).
+* Carlos Cordoba <ccordoba12@gmail.com> (Current Spyder maintainer).
+* C.A.M. Gerlach <WIDEnetServices@gmail.com> (Current docs maintainer).
+* All other developers who have contributed to the spyder-docs repository:
+  <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-docs/graphs/contributors>
+  and those editing the original documentation on the main spyder repository:
+  <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/commits/master/doc>
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE.txt
similarity index 95%
rename from LICENSE
rename to LICENSE.txt
index 677aef9da..9b3454cf6 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2009–2018 Spyder Project Contributors
+Copyright (c) 2009-2018 The Spyder Doc Contributors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ad329cc26..f97a060b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ![Spyder Docs — Documentation for the Scientific Python Development Environment](
 ./doc/_static/spyder_readme_banner.png)
 
-*Copyright © 2009–2018 Spyder Project Contributors*
+*Copyright © 2009–2018 The Spyder Doc Contributors*
 
 
 [![license](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/spyder.svg)](./LICENSE)
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 217d4af9f..17ab2a36b 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = 'Spyder'
-copyright = '2009–2018 The Spyder Project Contributors'
-author = 'The Spyder Project Contributors'
+copyright = '2009–2018 The Spyder Doc Contributors'
+author = 'The Spyder Doc Contributors'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
 #  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
 latex_documents = [
   ('index', 'Spyder.tex', 'Spyder Documentation',
-   'The Spyder Project Contributors', 'manual'),
+   author, 'manual'),
 ]
 
 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of