diff --git a/python-pygit2.changes b/python-pygit2.changes
index aad737b..b7cac5c 100644
--- a/python-pygit2.changes
+++ b/python-pygit2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Dec 27 10:03:25 UTC 2012 - cfarrell@suse.com
+
+- license update: GPL-2.0
+  See COPYING (and the majority of the source code files). Not sure why
+  Apache-2.0 was chosen as license here - there is absolutely no indication
+  of Apache style licensing in the package
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec 18 10:48:23 UTC 2012 - saschpe@suse.de
 
diff --git a/python-pygit2.spec b/python-pygit2.spec
index adb2b26..5f0815e 100644
--- a/python-pygit2.spec
+++ b/python-pygit2.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Version:        0.17.3
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://github.com/dborowitz/pygit2
 Summary:        Python bindings for libgit2
-License:        Apache-2.0
+License:        GPL-2.0
 Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 Source:         http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pygit2/pygit2-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build