diff --git a/openssl-sys/Cargo.toml b/openssl-sys/Cargo.toml
index 329044c4..26328ccf 100644
--- a/openssl-sys/Cargo.toml
+++ b/openssl-sys/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 description = "FFI bindings to OpenSSL"
 repository = "https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/openssl-sys/0.9"
+readme = "README.md"
 categories = ["cryptography", "external-ffi-bindings"]
 links = "openssl"
 build = "build.rs"
diff --git a/openssl-sys/README.md b/openssl-sys/README.md
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..32d46ee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openssl-sys/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/openssl/Cargo.toml b/openssl/Cargo.toml
index b62d3c19..e9c4fa71 100644
--- a/openssl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/openssl/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 description = "OpenSSL bindings"
 repository = "https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/openssl/0.9/openssl"
-readme = "../README.md"
+readme = "README.md"
 keywords = ["crypto", "tls", "ssl", "dtls"]
 categories = ["cryptography", "api-bindings"]
 build = "build.rs"
diff --git a/openssl/README.md b/openssl/README.md
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..32d46ee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openssl/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../README.md
\ No newline at end of file