diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
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+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Copyright (c) 2017-2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION. All rights reserved.
 
-This software is licensed under the terms of the "BSD 3-clause" license
+This software is licensed under the terms of the "Apache-2.0" license
 For details, refer to the LICENSE file located alongside this notice.
 
 If this program is being compiled and dynamically linked against libelf from the
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2d5dd033..844627f4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ nvidia-smi -L
 
 ## Copyright and License
 
-This project is released under the [BSD 3-clause license](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container/blob/main/LICENSE).
+This project is released under the [Apache-2.0 license](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container/blob/main/LICENSE).
 
 Additionally, this project can be dynamically linked with libelf from the elfutils package (https://sourceware.org/elfutils), in which case additional terms apply.\
 Refer to [NOTICE](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libnvidia-container/blob/main/NOTICE) for more information.