diff --git a/sys-apps/sed/sed-4.8.ebuild b/sys-apps/sed/sed-4.8.ebuild
index 060be8689435e..9b569200aecdf 100644
--- a/sys-apps/sed/sed-4.8.ebuild
+++ b/sys-apps/sed/sed-4.8.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://sed.sourceforge.net/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/sed/${P}.tar.xz"
 SRC_URI+=" verify-sig? ( mirror://gnu/sed/${P}.tar.xz.sig )"
 
-LICENSE="GPL-3"
+LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86"
 IUSE="acl nls selinux static"