diff --git a/lib/java/COPYING b/lib/java/COPYING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..039f21e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/java/COPYING
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Thrift Software License
+Copyright (c) 2006- Facebook, Inc. 
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
+obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
+this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
+execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
+Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
+do so, all subject to the following:
+
+The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
+the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
+must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
+all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
+works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
+a source language processor.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
+SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
+ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/lib/java/LICENSE b/lib/java/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..039f21e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/java/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Thrift Software License
+Copyright (c) 2006- Facebook, Inc. 
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
+obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
+this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
+execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
+Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
+do so, all subject to the following:
+
+The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
+the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
+must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
+all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
+works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
+a source language processor.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
+SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
+ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
+DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/lib/java/README b/lib/java/README
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index 0000000..2557af4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/java/README
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Thrift Java Software Library
+
+Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com)
+Last Modified: 2007-Mar-05
+
+Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license.
+Please see the included LICENSE file.
+
+Using Thrift with Java
+======================
+
+The Thrift Java source is not build using the GNU tools, but rather uses
+the Apache Ant build system, which tends to be predominant amongst Java
+developers.
+
+To compile the Java Thrift libraries, simply do the following:
+
+ant
+
+Yep, that's easy. Look for libthrift.jar in the base directory.
+
+To include Thrift in your applications simply add libthrift.jar to your
+classpath, or install if in your default system classpath of choice.
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+Apache Ant
+http://ant.apache.org/
diff --git a/lib/java/build.xml b/lib/java/build.xml
index d2a4df6..cd01017 100644
--- a/lib/java/build.xml
+++ b/lib/java/build.xml
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
   </target>
 
   <target name="install" depends="dist">
-    <exec executable="sudo">
-      <arg line="install libthrift.jar /usr/local/lib/" />
+    <exec executable="install">
+      <arg line="libthrift.jar /usr/local/lib/" />
     </exec>
   </target>