diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
deleted file mode 100644
index 96b13e5a6..000000000
--- a/NEWS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-See Changelog
-
-*******************************************
-Christophe dumez - chris@qbittorrent.org
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index d3aac7ecd..000000000
--- a/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-See https://blueprints.launchpad.net/qbittorrent/
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index db038c56f..0067aa9db 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AC_PROG_CXX
 AC_PROG_SED
 AC_LANG(C++)
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 # use compiler from env variables if available
 QBT_CC="$CC"