diff --git a/common/utils/threadPool/measurement_display.c b/common/utils/threadPool/measurement_display.c
index 8cee3796c73652a5fa4475ff239ca5864e6990bf..ac7beca1fe00bac4b8d29d5906ded4cc5d7d1ea6 100644
--- a/common/utils/threadPool/measurement_display.c
+++ b/common/utils/threadPool/measurement_display.c
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+/*
+  Author: Laurent THOMAS, Open Cells
+  copyleft: OpenAirInterface Software Alliance and it's licence
+*/
+
 #define __USE_GNU
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.c b/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.c
index ba70a07cc3c33f5a167936bf77f848da725d56f6..8a706d9246d0836fcdab4aa665a9ac75882151dd 100644
--- a/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.c
+++ b/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.c
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+/*
+  Author: Laurent THOMAS, Open Cells
+  copyleft: OpenAirInterface Software Alliance and it's licence
+*/
+
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #include <sched.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
diff --git a/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.h b/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.h
index 8b815bf752fb682b1e051ea061683a9c1dbac694..5c36364fc96dd779757d5d8c0a169f6ead4304e2 100644
--- a/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.h
+++ b/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.h
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+/*
+  Author: Laurent THOMAS, Open Cells
+  copyleft: OpenAirInterface Software Alliance and it's licence
+*/
+
 #ifndef THREAD_POOL_H
 #define THREAD_POOL_H
 #include <stdbool.h>
diff --git a/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.md b/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.md
index 6da98018e1b82584db59efc5dfea40a4a4cc92d1..92cc21b975d72473196d491835336b40adea1552 100644
--- a/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.md
+++ b/common/utils/threadPool/thread-pool.md
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ A selective abort allows to cancel parallel jobs (usage: a client pushed jobs, b
 
 All the thread pool functions are thread safe, nevertheless the working functions are implemented by the thread pool client, so the client has to tackle the parallel execution of his functions called "processingFunc" hereafter.
 
+## license
+Author: Laurent Thomas, Open cells project 
+The owner share the code usage to Openairsoftware alliance as per OSA license terms
+
 # jobs
 
 A job is a message (notifiedFIFO_elt_t):