diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
index 1070bdb9ebadd..0d414f0c69709 100644
--- a/LICENSE.md
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ their own licenses:
 - [FADDEEVA](http://ab-initio.mit.edu/Faddeeva)
 - [FFTW](http://fftw.org/doc/License-and-Copyright.html)
 - [GMP](http://gmplib.org/manual/Copying.html#Copying)
+- [LIBGIT2](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/COPYING)
 - [MPFR](http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr.html#Copying)
 - [MUSL](http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/COPYRIGHT)
 - [OPENBLAS](https://raw.github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/master/LICENSE)
diff --git a/Make.inc b/Make.inc
index fedb86ced8fbd..0b9c1b16d35b4 100644
--- a/Make.inc
+++ b/Make.inc
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ USE_SYSTEM_RMATH=0
 USE_SYSTEM_LIBUV=0
 USE_SYSTEM_UTF8PROC=0
 USE_SYSTEM_MOJIBAKE=0
+USE_SYSTEM_LIBGIT2=0
 
 # Link to the LLVM shared library
 USE_LLVM_SHLIB = 0