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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ See the [Tesseract wiki](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Data-Fi
 for additional information.
 
 All data in the repository are licensed under the
-Apache-2.0 License, see file [COPYING](COPYING).
+Apache-2.0 License, see file [LICENSE](LICENSE).