diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
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--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 ZeroTier One, an endpoint server for the ZeroTier virtual network layer.
 Copyright © 2011–2016 ZeroTier, Inc.
 
-ZeroTier One is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
-version 3, which are available here:
+ZeroTier One is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+your option) any later version.
 
 See the file ‘LICENSE.GPL-3’ for the text of the GNU GPL version 3.
 If that file is not present, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.