diff --git a/README.pod b/README.pod
index e687acf..84fc767 100644
--- a/README.pod
+++ b/README.pod
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ This is a semi-complicated situation as while the code is obstensibly open sourc
 
 buu has agreed to put his code under the GPL version 3 ( L<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3> ) or at your option any later version.
 
-Shlomi Fish licences his changes under any and all of the Expat license, the
+Shlomi Fish licenses his changes under any and all of the Expat license, the
 CC0, the same terms as perl 5, and the Artistic 2.0 license.
 =cut