diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 30cdcd08..2ef76aef 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ include tornado/test/static_foo.txt
 include tornado/test/templates/utf8.html
 include tornado/test/test.crt
 include tornado/test/test.key
+include LICENSE
 include README.rst
 include runtests.sh