diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ec1fc93a..b1649a90 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # AUTHORS
 # Andreas Suter, 2009/06/21
-# $Id: ChangeLog 4013 2009-06-21
+# $Id: AUTHORS 4013 2009-06-21
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Project leader and main developer:
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
deleted file mode 120000
index 71537690..00000000
--- a/COPYING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/share/automake-1.9/COPYING
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ff77bcfc..d7ac1094 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # INSTALL
 # Andreas Suter, 2009/06/21
-# $Id: README 4013 2009-06-21
+# $Id: INSTALL 4013 2009-06-21
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 To get it all build:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e69de29b..5e20af18 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# NEWS
+# Andreas Suter, 2009/06/21
+# $Id: NEWS 4013 2009-06-21
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+musrfit 0.5.0
+
++ Initial release supporting building by autotools
+  on Linux, MS Windows (Cygwin), Mac OS X
+
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# this is the end ...
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 2215d992..d544414c 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-
+ 
 # autogen.sh
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2009  BMW