diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.gitignore
similarity index 65%
rename from .cvsignore
rename to .gitignore
index 908e4e3e..d7642856 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-bin
-target
-build
-lib
-jit
+bin/
+target/
+build/
+lib/
+jit/
*.ser
*.gz
*.jar
diff --git a/README.html b/README.html
index 15503b3d..c3caa4c1 100644
--- a/README.html
+++ b/README.html
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
-
-
+# This is a fork!
+
+This repository has been forked from the original CVS sources of Luaj.
+The commit history has been converted to make sure that the original work of
+James Roseborough and Ian Farmer is not lost.
+Unfortunately, I was not able to contact either James or Ian to hand over
+ownership of the Github organization/repo as I have originally intended to.
+The community however seems interested enough to continue work on the original
+sources and therefore I have decided to make sure that any useful pull requests
+that may add some value to the original code base shall be merged in from now
+on.
+-- Benjamin P. Jung, Jan. 26th 2018
+