diff --git a/libarchive.changes b/libarchive.changes
index 0bab148..10c9b9a 100644
--- a/libarchive.changes
+++ b/libarchive.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug  9 09:05:01 UTC 2012 - cfarrell@suse.com
+
+- license update: BSD-2-Clause
+  The COPYING file shows that the package is predominantly BSD-2-Clause
+  licensed
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug  7 18:47:14 UTC 2012 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/libarchive.spec b/libarchive.spec
index f011c1c..72ef874 100644
--- a/libarchive.spec
+++ b/libarchive.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ BuildRequires:  libopenssl-devel
 BuildRequires:  libxml2-devel
 BuildRequires:  xz-devel
 Summary:        Creates and reads several different streaming archive formats
-License:        BSD-3-Clause
+License:        BSD-2-Clause
 Group:          Productivity/Archiving/Compression
 Url:            http://libarchive.github.com/
 Source0:        http://libarchive.googlecode.com/files/libarchive-%{version}.tar.gz