diff --git a/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.5.ebuild b/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.5.ebuild
index 04f387d863c24..cbc18cb3dcd61 100644
--- a/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.5.ebuild
+++ b/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.5.ebuild
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Utility to apply diffs to files"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html"
 SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/patch/${P}.tar.xz"
 
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE="static test xattr"
diff --git a/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.6.ebuild b/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.6.ebuild
index 0f51919147f4c..b16c1511b8888 100644
--- a/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.6.ebuild
+++ b/sys-devel/patch/patch-2.7.6.ebuild
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Utility to apply diffs to files"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html"
 SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/patch/${P}.tar.xz"
 
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~arm-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
 IUSE="static test xattr"