diff --git a/Installation/AUTHORS b/Installation/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c532b21e1ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Installation/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+AUTHORS
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Pierre Alliez
+Eric Berberich
+Olivier Billet
+Jean Daniel Boissonnat
+Carine Bonetto
+Hervé Brönnimann
+Matthias Bäsken
+Fernando Cacciola
+Frédéric Cazals
+Raphaëlle Chaine
+Tran Kai Frank Da
+Christophe Delage
+Olivier Devillers
+Katrin Dobrindt
+Arno Eigenwillig
+Eti Ezra
+Andreas Fabri
+Frederic Fichel
+Kaspar Fischer
+Eyal Flato
+Julia Flötotto
+Efi Fogel
+Wolfgang Freiseisen
+Geert-Jan Giezeman
+Marc Glisse
+Miguel Granados
+Philippe Guigue
+Bernd Gärtner
+Peter Hachenberger
+Iddo Hanniel
+Sariel Har-Peled
+Idit Haran
+Julien Hazebrouck
+Michael Hemmer
+Thomas Herrmann
+Susan Hert
+Shai Hirsch
+Michael Hoffmann
+Marcel Janer
+Athanasios Kakargias
+Menelaos Karavelas
+Lutz Kettner
+Nico Kruithof
+Eran Leiserowitz
+Sebastian Limbach
+Kapelushnik Lior
+Eugene Lipovetsky
+Sébastien Loriot
+Bruno Lévy
+Pedro Machado
+Bastien Manuel
+Abdelkrim Mebarki
+Naceur Meskini
+Andreas Meyer
+Michal Meyerovitch
+Oren Nechushtan
+Gabriele Neyer
+Ralf Osbild
+Steve Oudot
+Eli Packer
+Dmitrii Pasechnik
+Sylvain Pion
+Marc Pouget
+Sigal Raab
+François Rebufat
+Joachim Reichel
+David Rey
+Laurent Rineau
+Daniel Russel
+Niv Sabath
+Laurent Saboret
+Stefan Schirra
+Sven Schönherr
+Michael Seel
+Ophir Setter
+Le-Jeng Shiue
+Hans Tangelder
+Monique Teillaud
+Constantinos Tsirogiannis
+Radu Ursu
+Carl Van Geem
+Remco Veltkamp
+Ron Wein
+Wieger Wesselink
+Camille Wormser
+Mariette Yvinec
+Afra Zomorodian
+Baruch Zukerman
+Tali Zvi
diff --git a/Installation/CHANGES b/Installation/CHANGES
index 6ac244d1918..5a4f52ed2f5 100644
--- a/Installation/CHANGES
+++ b/Installation/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$CGAL/CHANGES
+CHANGES
 ----------------------------- Release 3.3 ----------------------------------
 The following functionality has been added or changed:
 
diff --git a/Installation/INSTALL b/Installation/INSTALL
index 0bf27e8f440..805e3e17f20 100644
--- a/Installation/INSTALL
+++ b/Installation/INSTALL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$CGAL/INSTALL
+INSTALL
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 This file describes how to install CGAL on Unix or Unix-like systems
 such as Linux, Solaris, Irix, and Cygwin on Windows. For installation
diff --git a/Installation/README b/Installation/README
index ec0729e7b01..c9ab20e1c5b 100644
--- a/Installation/README
+++ b/Installation/README
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-$CGAL/README
+README
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 This distribution of CGAL includes:
 
+   AUTHORS            - file recording the current and former authors of CGAL
    auxiliary/         - directory containing miscellaneous things, currently
                         only the icons needed for the demos on MacOSX.
    CHANGES            - file recording the history of changes for the library