diff --git a/src/gitversion/setup.py b/src/gitversion/setup.py
index dcdae273..88bbe516 100644
--- a/src/gitversion/setup.py
+++ b/src/gitversion/setup.py
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ setup(name='git-version',
       description='Make git version information (e.g. git tag name, git commit id, ...) available to C++ source files.',
       author='Sebastian Messmer',
       author_email='messmer@cryfs.org',
-      license='GPLv3'
+      license='LGPLv3'
 )