diff --git a/RELICENSE/NLeScienceCenter.md b/RELICENSE/NLeScienceCenter.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7623c1cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELICENSE/NLeScienceCenter.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Permission to Relicense under MPLv2
+
+This is a statement by the Netherlands eScience Center
+that grants permission to relicense its copyrights in the libzmq C++
+library (ZeroMQ) under the Mozilla Public License v2 (MPLv2).
+
+A portion of the commits made by the Github handle "egpbos", with
+commit author "E. G. Patrick Bos p.bos@esciencecenter.nl", are copyright of the Netherlands eScience Center.
+This document hereby grants the libzmq project team to relicense libzmq,
+including all past, present and future contributions of the author listed above.
+
+Rob van Nieuwpoort <R.vanNieuwpoort@esciencecenter.nl>
+2021/06/15