diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index a0aadf83..97911282 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ recursive-exclude test/ *
 
 exclude .*
 exclude Dockerfile
+exclude Dockerfile_devel
+exclude Makefile
 
 #data
 recursive-include mriqc/data *
diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
deleted file mode 100644
index a7e7c982..00000000
--- a/NOTICE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-MRIQC
-Copyright 2021 The NiPreps Developers.
-
-This product includes software developed by
-the NiPreps Community (https://nipreps.org/).
-
-Portions of this software were developed at the Department of
-Psychology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US.
-
-This software contains code ultimately derived from the
-PCP Quality Assessment Protocol (QAP;
-http://preprocessed-connectomes-project.org/quality-assessment-protocol)
-by C. Craddock, S. Giavasis, D. Clark, Z. Shezhad, and J. Pellman.
-
-This software is also distributed as a Docker container image.
-The bootstrapping file for the image ("Dockerfile") is licensed
-under the MIT License.
diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..233b6c36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mriqc/data/NOTICE
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mriqc/cli/parser.py b/mriqc/cli/parser.py
index 7ef1fe4b..db0611a1 100644
--- a/mriqc/cli/parser.py
+++ b/mriqc/cli/parser.py
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ def parse_args(args=None, namespace=None):
 
     from niworkflows.utils.bids import DEFAULT_BIDS_QUERIES, collect_data
 
-    from mriqc import __version__
+    from mriqc import __version__, data
     from mriqc._warnings import DATE_FMT, LOGGER_FMT, _LogFormatter
     from mriqc.messages import PARTICIPANT_START
     from mriqc.utils.misc import initialize_meta_and_data
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ def parse_args(args=None, namespace=None):
             f'  * BIDS filters-file: {opts.bids_filter_file.absolute()}.',
         )
 
+    notice_path = data.load.readable('NOTICE')
     config.loggers.cli.log(
         26,
         PARTICIPANT_START.format(
@@ -532,6 +533,9 @@ def parse_args(args=None, namespace=None):
             bids_dir=opts.bids_dir,
             output_dir=opts.output_dir,
             analysis_level=opts.analysis_level,
+            notice='\n  '.join(
+                ['NOTICE'] + notice_path.read_text().splitlines(keepends=False)[1:]
+            ),
             extra_messages='\n'.join(extra_messages),
         ),
     )
diff --git a/mriqc/data/NOTICE b/mriqc/data/NOTICE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..939b4ca4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mriqc/data/NOTICE
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+MRIQC
+Copyright © The NiPreps Developers.
+
+This product includes software developed by
+the NiPreps Community (https://nipreps.org/).
+
+Portions of this software were developed at the Department of
+Psychology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US.
+
+This software contains code ultimately derived from the
+PCP Quality Assessment Protocol (QAP;
+http://preprocessed-connectomes-project.org/quality-assessment-protocol)
+by C. Craddock, S. Giavasis, D. Clark, Z. Shezhad, and J. Pellman.
+
+This software is also distributed as a Docker container image.
+The bootstrapping file for the image ("Dockerfile") is licensed
+under the MIT License.
diff --git a/mriqc/data/__init__.py b/mriqc/data/__init__.py
index e69de29b..f4aed61d 100644
--- a/mriqc/data/__init__.py
+++ b/mriqc/data/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# emacs: -*- mode: python; py-indent-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
+# vi: set ft=python sts=4 ts=4 sw=4 et:
+#
+# Copyright 2024 The NiPreps Developers <nipreps@gmail.com>
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# We support and encourage derived works from this project, please read
+# about our expectations at
+#
+#     https://www.nipreps.org/community/licensing/
+#
+"""
+MRIQC data files
+
+.. autofunction:: load
+
+.. automethod:: load.readable
+
+.. automethod:: load.as_path
+
+.. automethod:: load.cached
+"""
+
+from acres import Loader
+
+load = Loader(__package__)
diff --git a/mriqc/messages.py b/mriqc/messages.py
index b9d05e65..f02d8c5d 100644
--- a/mriqc/messages.py
+++ b/mriqc/messages.py
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
   Running MRIQC version {version}
   ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  {notice}
+
+  ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
   * BIDS dataset path: {bids_dir}.
   * Output folder: {output_dir}.
   * Analysis levels: {analysis_level}.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1e3bf042..9ca5bdbf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ classifiers = [
   "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
 ]
 dependencies = [
+  "acres",
   "dipy",
   'importlib_resources; python_version < "3.9"', # jinja2 imports deprecated function removed in 2.1
   "markupsafe ~= 2.0.1",