diff --git a/tidyp.changes b/tidyp.changes
index ed86564..ab8ac24 100644
--- a/tidyp.changes
+++ b/tidyp.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jun 20 13:15:52 UTC 2012 - cfarrell@suse.com
+
+- license update: W3C
+  SPDX format (http://www.spdx.org/licenses)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov 17 12:31:24 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/tidyp.spec b/tidyp.spec
index 77380ca..a158a20 100644
--- a/tidyp.spec
+++ b/tidyp.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Version:        1.04
 Release:        1
 Summary:        Utility to Clean Up and Pretty-print HTML, XHTML or XML Markup
 Group:          Productivity/Publishing/HTML/Tools
-License:        Use, copy, modify but please mark changes
+License:        W3C
 Url:            http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
 Source0:        http://github.com//downloads/petdance/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRequires:  libtool
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Furthermore, it can convert plain HTML to XHTML. For generic XML files, Tidy is
 limited to correcting basic well-formedness errors and pretty printing.
 
 %package -n libtidyp-1_04-0
-License:        Use, copy, modify but please mark changes
+License:        W3C
 Summary:        Library to Clean Up and Pretty-print HTML, XHTML or XML Markup
 Group:          Productivity/Publishing/HTML/Tools
 AutoReqProv:    on
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ There is a commandline frontend for this library, contained in the package
 "tidy".
 
 %package -n libtidyp-devel
-License:        Use, copy, modify but please mark changes
+License:        W3C
 Summary:        Include Files and Libraries for Development
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       libtidyp-1_04-0 = %{version} glibc-devel