diff --git a/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.changes b/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.changes
index 9e3bef2..ca96a35 100644
--- a/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.changes
+++ b/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Oct 30 15:01:40 UTC 2015 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
+
+- switch to BSD-2-Clause as the script is more likely released 
+  under this license
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Aug  1 19:14:27 UTC 2015 - lars@linux-schulserver.de
 
diff --git a/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.spec b/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.spec
index ec609a9..78b31af 100644
--- a/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.spec
+++ b/monitoring-plugins-sar-perf.spec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Summary:        Get performance data from sar
 Version:        0.1
 Release:        100
 Url:            https://github.com/nickanderson/check-sar-perf 
-License:        GPL-2.0+
+License:        BSD-2-Clause
 Group:          System/Monitoring
 Source0:        nickanderson-check-sar-perf-4878d0c.tar.gz 
 Source1:        check_iostat