diff --git a/coreutils.changes b/coreutils.changes
index 880d8da..084d992 100644
--- a/coreutils.changes
+++ b/coreutils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec  2 08:09:09 UTC 2011 - cfarrell@suse.com
+
+- license update: GPL-3.0+
+  Consolidate to GPL-3.0+ and use SPDX format
+  (http://www.spdx.org/licenses). More or less compatible to Fedora package
+  (who don^t use full SPDX implementation)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Nov 30 09:45:46 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/coreutils.spec b/coreutils.spec
index 25f9b0d..40af4ec 100644
--- a/coreutils.spec
+++ b/coreutils.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Name:           coreutils
 Summary:        GNU Core Utilities
 BuildRequires:  automake help2man libacl-devel libcap-devel libselinux-devel pam-devel xz
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
-License:        GFDL-1.1; GPL-2+; GPL-3+
+License:        GPL-3.0+
 Group:          System/Base
 Version:        8.14
 Release:        0