diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 4a368fd..fe62b72 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ Authors@R: c(person("Rich", "FitzJohn", role = "aut",
     email = "myrmecocystus@gmail.com"),
     person("Stefan Milton Bache", role = "aut",
     email = "stefan@stefanbache.dk"),
-    person("Stephen", "Dolan", role = "cph"))
+    person("Stephen", "Dolan", role = c("aut","cph"), comment = "jq library"),
+    person(family = "jq contributors", role = "ctb",
+         comment = "jq library; authors listed in inst/AUTHORS.jq"),
+    person("Free Software Foundation", role = c("ctb","cph"), comment = "parser code in src/parser.c"),
+    person("David M", "Gay", role = c("ctb","cph"), comment = "code in src/jv_dtoa.c"))
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 SystemRequirements: GNU make
 URL: https://github.com/ropensci/jqr
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index a72acd2..a762f36 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -6,6 +6,33 @@ R development version, Ubuntu running on Travis-CI, and WinBuilder.
 
 This is a new package.
 
+This is a re-submission of the first submission. I was asked to
+look over again the authors, license, and copyright information.
+
+In terms of authors and copyright, I have updated the DESCRIPTION
+file with ctb and cph notes for jq, some C code by David Gay, and
+the bison parser.
+
+In terms of license, jq is MIT and other C code included by David Gay
+is also MIT licensed. A dependency in jq, bison, is GPL licensed.
+However, bison has a special exception:
+
+	 As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains
+   part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work
+   under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a
+   parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof
+   as a parser skeleton.  Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute
+   the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this
+   special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting
+   Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public
+   License without this special exception. This special exception was
+   added by the Free Software Foundation in version 2.2 of Bison.
+
+If I understand this correctly, this means we can license this package
+under MIT since this package is not a parser generator itself. The fact
+that jq is licensed under MIT suggests that we can as well. I hope
+I have interpreted this correctly. Please let me know if you disagree.
+
 Note that CHECK says that 'jq' should be sentence cased, but that is
 an improper spelling of the software.