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 operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles
 from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
 
-86Box is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
+86Box is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
 For more information, see the `COPYING` file.
 
 The project maintainer is [OBattler](https://github.com/OBattler).