diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild
index 1a139279ad855..16c4445f3ae3c 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-8.32-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz
 	)
 "
 
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="acl caps gmp hostname kill multicall nls selinux +split-usr static test vanilla xattr"
diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.0-r2.ebuild b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.0-r2.ebuild
index e55e9bf82f73d..f759f70394f09 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.0-r2.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.0-r2.ebuild
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz
 	)
 	verify-sig? ( mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz.sig )"
 
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-linux"
 IUSE="acl caps gmp hostname kill multicall nls selinux +split-usr static test vanilla xattr"
diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1-r1.ebuild b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1-r1.ebuild
index 4594d9dae0bbf..09f9e649bfa84 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ fi
 
 SRC_URI+=" !vanilla? ( https://dev.gentoo.org/~sam/distfiles/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/${MY_PATCH}.tar.xz )"
 
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 IUSE="acl caps gmp hostname kill multicall nls selinux +split-usr static test vanilla xattr"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
diff --git a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.ebuild b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.ebuild
index 7b78b8fa9d134..f91b65f9f59f1 100644
--- a/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-9.1.ebuild
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ fi
 
 SRC_URI+=" !vanilla? ( https://dev.gentoo.org/~sam/distfiles/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/${MY_PATCH}.tar.xz )"
 
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 IUSE="acl caps gmp hostname kill multicall nls selinux +split-usr static test vanilla xattr"
 RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"