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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Homebrew's current maintainers are [Misty De Meo](https://github.com/mistydemeo)
 Former maintainers with significant contributions include [Dominyk Tiller](https://github.com/DomT4), [Brett Koonce](https://github.com/asparagui), [Jack Nagel](https://github.com/jacknagel), [Adam Vandenberg](https://github.com/adamv) and Homebrew's creator: [Max Howell](https://github.com/mxcl).
 
 ## License
-Code is under the [BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tree/master/LICENSE.txt).
+Code is under the [BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tree/master/LICENSE.txt).
 Documentation is under the [Creative Commons Attribution license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
 
 ## Donations