diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0c0656b..4c778cd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ __pycache__/
 .venv/
 venv/
 
-config.py
+/config.py
+/data/config.py
 
 *.png
 *.gif
diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index 3e8b319..e5f571e 100755
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Bot(Bot):
 	)
 
 	def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-		with open('config.py') as f:
+		with open('data/config.py') as f:
 			config = eval(f.read(), {})
 
 		super().__init__(config=config, **kwargs)
diff --git a/config.example.py b/data/config.example.py
similarity index 97%
rename from config.example.py
rename to data/config.example.py
index 9391115..3d41a97 100644
--- a/config.example.py
+++ b/data/config.example.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 		},
 	},
 
-	'copyright_license_file': 'short-license.txt',
+	'copyright_license_file': 'data/short-license.txt',
 
 	'socks5_proxy_url': None,  # required for connecting to the EC API over a Tor onion service
 	'use_socks5_for_all_connections': False,  # whether to use socks5 for all HTTP operations (other than discord.py)
diff --git a/short-license.txt b/data/short-license.txt
similarity index 94%
rename from short-license.txt
rename to data/short-license.txt
index 61aae68..44436dd 100644
--- a/short-license.txt
+++ b/data/short-license.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright © 2018–2020 lambda#0987
+© 2018–2020 lambda#0987
 
 Emote Manager is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as