diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 213e34ae8..dda451e61 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 Guile is covered under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
-License, version 2.1.  See COPYING.LESSER.
+License, version 2.1 or later.  See COPYING.LESSER.