diff --git a/gzip.changes b/gzip.changes
index 49c93cd..7f68761 100644
--- a/gzip.changes
+++ b/gzip.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 12 15:29:22 UTC 2018 - meissner@suse.com
+
+- license is GPL-3.0+
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 11 09:29:30 UTC 2018 - kbabioch@suse.com
 
diff --git a/gzip.spec b/gzip.spec
index 8d53db7..683973e 100644
--- a/gzip.spec
+++ b/gzip.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Name:           gzip
 Version:        1.9
 Release:        0
 Summary:        GNU Zip Compression Utilities
-License:        GPL-2.0+
+License:        GPL-3.0+
 Group:          Productivity/Archiving/Compression
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/
 Source:         http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz