diff --git a/LICENCE b/LICENSE
similarity index 97%
rename from LICENCE
rename to LICENSE
index c0e1f33..b3e08da 100644
--- a/LICENCE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright 2020 Owen Bell
+Copyright 2020 xfnw
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d677613..f188b1a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ searpl is a small php search engine with the following features:
 
 
 ## licensing
-searpl is licenced under an MIT licence, see [LICENSE](LICENSE)
+searpl is licensed under an MIT licence, see [LICENSE](LICENSE)
 for more information
 
 ## setup