diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..325c1387eea61c604031f5810b9bae1012ea0ebf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) 
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+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 AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
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+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_data_extraction.py b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_data_extraction.py
index cced29535d28bb264fed30ad197bd902bb5cce85..494540eedf9553271ff3a3e9e901a34c0d1236fc 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_data_extraction.py
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_data_extraction.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
 __email__ = "b.gong@fz-juelich.de"
 __author__ = "Bing Gong, Amirpasha Mozaffari"
 __date__ = "2020-11-10"
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_meta_postprocess.py b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_meta_postprocess.py
index 45ea1dc70409ecb46e18fb607083358c7ab1715c..f752ef7e66457c033d67521a2654b90138ae3377 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_meta_postprocess.py
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_meta_postprocess.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step1.py b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step1.py
index 01b641b886c8bc20921d64a340509bfaf1ab57fa..0c675df6b6295b053aa9ebb97bd62f768b31bcfe 100755
--- a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step1.py
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step1.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
 """
 Driver for preprocessing step 1 which parses the input arguments from the runscript
 and performs parallelization with PyStager.
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step2.py b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step2.py
index 1a16e4e723bda40baafdfada3f9012b51b61016a..e71b5b58174324a6875da7f49f3d301233e00ecb 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step2.py
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_preprocess_data_step2.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
 """
 Driver for preprocessing step 2 which parses the input arguments from the runscript
 and performs parallelization with OpenMPI.
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_train_models.py b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_train_models.py
index a54abb14158c4466a9f5783c93f0c09f78894118..4fe3e518b7c573fe2ed92ba647611d372e264fd6 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_train_models.py
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_train_models.py
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Alex X. Lee
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
-"""
-We took the code implementation from https://github.com/alexlee-gk/video_prediction, SAVP model  as reference, and adjust the code based on our project needs
-"""
-
 __email__ = "b.gong@fz-juelich.de"
 __author__ = "Bing Gong, Michael Langguth"
 __date__ = "2020-10-22"
diff --git a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_visualize_postprocess.py b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_visualize_postprocess.py
index 67c064ea69953658f19e31967c91a2d504ac2c3f..65df7e4abc3991cf6ae6d81987a46608611fa911 100644
--- a/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_visualize_postprocess.py
+++ b/video_prediction_tools/main_scripts/main_visualize_postprocess.py
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE), Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function