diff --git a/coreutils/sum.c b/coreutils/sum.c
index d6a76dbbc..99d477fc3 100644
--- a/coreutils/sum.c
+++ b/coreutils/sum.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * Written by Kayvan Aghaiepour and David MacKenzie
  * Taken from coreutils and turned into a busybox applet by Mike Frysinger
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include "busybox.h"
diff --git a/debianutils/readlink.c b/debianutils/readlink.c
index 10fb01ebf..bfe0db6c3 100644
--- a/debianutils/readlink.c
+++ b/debianutils/readlink.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
  *
- * Licensed under GPL v2, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ * Licensed under GPL v2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
  */
 
 #include "busybox.h"
diff --git a/debianutils/run_parts.c b/debianutils/run_parts.c
index c54e515fe..964a221a8 100644
--- a/debianutils/run_parts.c
+++ b/debianutils/run_parts.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  *   Copyright (C) 1996-1999 Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
  *
  *
- * Licensed under GPL v2, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ * Licensed under GPL v2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
  */
 
 /* This is my first attempt to write a program in C (well, this is my first
diff --git a/debianutils/which.c b/debianutils/which.c
index b902b64d8..db28f7803 100644
--- a/debianutils/which.c
+++ b/debianutils/which.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  *
  * Based on which from debianutils
  */
diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c
index c2c4e7095..0e0d03f9e 100644
--- a/findutils/grep.c
+++ b/findutils/grep.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 by Lineo, inc. and Mark Whitley
  * Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 /* BB_AUDIT SUSv3 defects - unsupported option -x.  */
 /* BB_AUDIT GNU defects - always acts as -a.  */
diff --git a/libbb/bb_pwd.c b/libbb/bb_pwd.c
index 07876f0e2..de1d66303 100644
--- a/libbb/bb_pwd.c
+++ b/libbb/bb_pwd.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 
diff --git a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
index 73467446f..5520220b3 100644
--- a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
+++ b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/libbb/llist.c b/libbb/llist.c
index 13b974dec..0e727c496 100644
--- a/libbb/llist.c
+++ b/libbb/llist.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2005 Bernhard Fischer
  * Copyright (C) 2006 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
diff --git a/loginutils/su.c b/loginutils/su.c
index 2e0aed6b1..ff6643e60 100644
--- a/loginutils/su.c
+++ b/loginutils/su.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /*
  *  Mini su implementation for busybox
  *
- *  Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ *  Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include "busybox.h"
diff --git a/procps/pidof.c b/procps/pidof.c
index d9c8dca42..5b28f3b86 100644
--- a/procps/pidof.c
+++ b/procps/pidof.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include "busybox.h"
diff --git a/procps/ps.c b/procps/ps.c
index 9dc68395a..e4accba3d 100644
--- a/procps/ps.c
+++ b/procps/ps.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include "busybox.h"
diff --git a/util-linux/swaponoff.c b/util-linux/swaponoff.c
index c693cf9b5..e75ca7ece 100644
--- a/util-linux/swaponoff.c
+++ b/util-linux/swaponoff.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
  *
- * Licensed under the GPL v2, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
+ * Licensed under the GPL v2 or later, see the file LICENSE in this tarball.
  */
 
 #include "busybox.h"