diff --git a/README b/README.md
similarity index 71%
rename from README
rename to README.md
index 755e42f411dddc45cddf263ec62f43aceb79f613..83a3f81d6f6abe91d00a7c06a93069e844111910 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ All other calls are passt to the underlying socket.
 For more info of tinydtls see https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/iot.tinydtls
 
 This Code was created at the [Multimedia Communication Laboratory](http://mc-lab.de) of the [Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences](http://h-brs.de)
+
+The Repo is hostet in our [GitLab](https://git.fslab.de/jkonra2m/tinydtls-cython)
+There is now also a mirror on [GitHub](https://github.com/kabel42/DTLSSocket)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e36b29f7d79f30ee588764e02bea3d3577994def..5e46f9c127fea60e1e08ad90a2c3cf0abb10b471 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,10 +21,15 @@ class prepare_tinydtls(build_ext):
             run_command(command)
         build_ext.run(self)
 
+with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
+    long_description = fh.read()
+
 setup(
     name="DTLSSocket",
     version='0.1.10',
     description = "DTLSSocket is a cython wrapper for tinydtls with a Socket like interface",
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     author      = "Jannis Konrad",
     author_email= "Jannis.Konrad@h-brs.de",
     url         = "https://git.fslab.de/jkonra2m/tinydtls-cython",