diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/contributing.md
similarity index 100%
rename from CONTRIBUTING.md
rename to contributing.md
diff --git a/LICENSE b/license
similarity index 100%
rename from LICENSE
rename to license
diff --git a/README.md b/readme.md
similarity index 100%
rename from README.md
rename to readme.md
diff --git a/update_list.py b/update_list.py
index 996e87c5..5fae6b50 100755
--- a/update_list.py
+++ b/update_list.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ result = f"""<!--Languages start-->
 
 {languagesText}<!--Languages end-->"""
 
-readmeContents = open('README.md', 'r', encoding="utf-8").read()
+readmeContents = open('readme.md', 'r', encoding="utf-8").read()
 
-open('README.md', 'w', encoding="utf-8").write(regexReplace(
+open('readme.md', 'w', encoding="utf-8").write(regexReplace(
     readmeContents, r"<!--Languages start-->(.|\n)*<!--Languages end-->", result))