# Minor change to the license listed in the project's README to GPLv3+

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/minor-change-to-the-license-listed-in-the-projects-readme-to-gplv3/31727>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minor-change-to-the-license-listed-in-the-projects-readme-to-gplv3/31727 "2019-11-26T16:30:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkuratom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@tkuratom](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tkuratom)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minor-change-to-the-license-listed-in-the-projects-readme-to-gplv3/31727/1 "2019-11-26T16:30:10Z")

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Greetings all,

I'm just letting you all know that I'm merging this PR today:  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65124](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65124)

It changes the license listed in the README from "GNU General Public  
License v3.0" to "GNU General Public License v3.0 or later". We  
consider this a clarification rather than a relicensing as both the  
Ansible documentation[1]\_ and the headers for contributed Ansible code  
(for instance, this [2]\_ and [3]\_) say either "GNU Public License v3.0  
or later" or the abbreviated form "GNU General Public License v3.0+".

.. \_[1]: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/dev\_guide/developing\_modules\_checklist.rst#contributing-to-ansible-objective-requirements](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/developing_modules_checklist.rst#contributing-to-ansible-objective-requirements)  
.. \_[2]: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/release.py](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/release.py)  
.. \_[3]: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/context.py#L3](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/context.py#L3)

-Toshio