diff --git a/app-text/par/par-1.52-r1.ebuild b/app-text/par/par-1.52-r1.ebuild
index 7e6f9b7dcf6e3..2f34f767653c2 100644
--- a/app-text/par/par-1.52-r1.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/par/par-1.52-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="a paragraph reformatter, vaguely similar to fmt, but better"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.nicemice.net/par/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.nicemice.net/par/${MY_P/./}.tar.gz"
 
-LICENSE="freedist"
+LICENSE="par"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~mips ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos"
 IUSE=""