diff --git a/TASKS.txt b/TASKS.txt
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@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ Quoting a message from Lee Kamentsky to Stefan van der Walt sent on
   commercial product whereas CellProfiler needs the more stringent
   protection of GPL as an application.
 
+In 2010, Vebjorn Ljosa officially released parts of the code under a
+BSD license (:doc:`cell_profiler` | `original message
+<http://groups.google.com/group/scikits-image/browse_thread/thread/c4f8fc584bfd839d>`_).
+
 Thanks to Lee Kamentsky, Thouis Jones and Anne Carpenter and their colleagues
 who contributed.
 
diff --git a/doc/source/cell_profiler.txt b/doc/source/cell_profiler.txt
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+CellProfiler BSD license announcement
+-------------------------------------
+
+::
+
+  From: Vebjorn Ljosa
+  To: scikits-image@googlegroups.com
+  Date: June 3, 2010
+
+  We have changed the license of some parts of CellProfiler from GNU GPL
+  to BSD.  It has previously been proposed [1] that some of the image
+  processing code in CellProfiler be merged into SciPy, and the license
+  change makes this possible.
+
+  The CellProfiler SVN repository is at
+  https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/.  The
+  file LICENSE [2] contains a list of BSD-licensed subdirectories as
+  well as other license details.  The rest of CellProfiler continues to
+  be licensed under the GNU GPL.  The BSD-licensed subdirectories are:
+
+   * CellProfiler/cpmath [3]: image processing algorithms
+   * CellProfiler/utilities [4]: contains a Java bridge, making it
+  possible to call Java functions from Python
+   * bioformats [5]: wrapper that uses the Java bridge to have
+  Bioformats [6] read or write an image file
+
+  Good luck with the upcoming scikits.image sprint.  I don't think
+  anyone from the CellProfiler team will be able to take part in the
+  sprint this time, but don't hesitate to ask on the
+  cellprofiler-dev@broadinstitute.org mailing list.
+
+  Thanks,
+  Vebjorn
+
+  [1] http://stefanv.github.com/scikits.image/contribute.html
+  [2] https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/LICENSE
+  [3] https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/cellprofiler/cpmath/
+  [4] https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/cellprofiler/utilities/
+  [5] https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/bioformats/
+  [6] http://www.loci.wisc.edu/software/bio-formats