diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
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 License
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-Dolibarr is distributed under GPL terms 2.0 (See COPYING file)
+Dolibarr is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 
+published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
+or (at your option) any later version
 
 However it uses some external libraries under different licences. This is compatibility summary: