diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Description: Provides tools for working with medical coding schemas such as the
   comorbidity classification algorithms such as the Pediatric Complex Chronic
   Conditions (PCCC), Charlson, and Elixhauser indices.
 Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
-License: GPL-2
+License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE
 Language: en-US
 Encoding: UTF-8
 URL: http://www.peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/, https://github.com/dewittpe/medicalcoder/
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+YEAR: 2026
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Peter E. DeWitt, Seth Russell, Meg Rebull, Tell Bennett, Vincent Rubinetti, The Regents of the University of Colorado
+ORGANIZATION: University of Colorado Anschutz
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # medicalcoder 0.7.0.9000
 
+## License Change
+
+medicalcoder <= 0.7.0 was under GPL-2 for no other reason that that was the
+default in the template DESCRIPTION file.  With this release we have
+transitioned from GPL-2 to BSD-3-Clause to reduce almost all barriers to use of
+the package in other environments.
+
 ## New Features
 
 * If a `tibble` is passed to `comorbidities()` and the `dplyr` namespace is