diff --git a/dist/imhex.appdata.xml b/dist/imhex.appdata.xml
index 5c2eb3ca4..740b3069d 100644
--- a/dist/imhex.appdata.xml
+++ b/dist/imhex.appdata.xml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <component type="desktop-application">
 	<id>imhex</id>
-	<metadata_license>GPL-2.0</metadata_license>
+	<metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
 	<project_license>GPL-2.0</project_license>
 	<name>ImHex</name>
 	<summary>A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM</summary>
 	<description>
-		<p>ImHex is a feature-rich Hex Editor aimed towards Reverse Engineers working with foreign data formats, malware, executables and raw memory. 
+		<p>ImHex is a feature-rich Hex Editor aimed towards Reverse Engineers working with foreign data formats, malware, executables and raw memory. 
 Besides all the features a common Hex Editor has, ImHex also features a custom scripting language used to declare and dissect data structures, support for running YARA rules, a node-based graphical data pre-processor and support for various data sources such as files, raw disks or GDB Servers.</p>
 	</description>
 	<launchable type="desktop-id">imhex.desktop</launchable>
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ Besides all the features a common Hex Editor has, ImHex also features a custom s
 	<provides>
 		<id>imhex.desktop</id>
 	</provides>
-</component>
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+</component>