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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ SPI-Py: Hardware SPI as a C Extension for Python
 
 COPYRIGHT (C) 2012 Louis Thiery. All rights reserved. Further work by Connor Wolf.
 
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License V2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License V2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
 LIABILITY  
 This program is distributed for educational purposes only and is no way suitable for any particular application,