diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fcfea4facfbba034821459457bdb01dcedccb965..20425384fe8e3f7966749d4f46fc0e0dcedb059d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ setup(
     description="Miscellaneous things to process high throughput sequencing data.",
     author="Blaise Li",
     author_email="blaise.li@normalesup.org",
-    license="MIT",
+    license="GNU GPLv3",
     packages=find_packages(),
     scripts=["scripts/bam2bigwig.sh", "scripts/sam2indexedbam.sh"],
     install_requires=[