diff --git a/src/doc/User_doc/belvu_usage.txt b/src/doc/User_doc/belvu_usage.txt
index fbe0a5a4fd26d329be8097d9d4b5d98a02140f20..e6909cf247f052555b703d9c7ec3c2dac5f7f306 100644
--- a/src/doc/User_doc/belvu_usage.txt
+++ b/src/doc/User_doc/belvu_usage.txt
@@ -176,5 +176,5 @@
  See http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/seqtools/ for more info.
 
  Copyright (c) 2011: Genome Research Ltd.
- Belvu is distributed under the GNU Public License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
+ Belvu is distributed under the Apache License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
 
diff --git a/src/doc/User_doc/blixem_usage.txt b/src/doc/User_doc/blixem_usage.txt
index e26a0d9b89fe73c37a309b66e0331d79427a44ea..b1f78ee0ef8956dac4bb38fb12fbc4b71c54513a 100644
--- a/src/doc/User_doc/blixem_usage.txt
+++ b/src/doc/User_doc/blixem_usage.txt
@@ -205,4 +205,4 @@ MSPcrunch
  See http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/seqtools/ for more info.
 
  Copyright (c) 2009-2011: Genome Research Ltd.
- Blixem is distributed under the GNU Public License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
+ Blixem is distributed under the Apache License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
diff --git a/src/doc/User_doc/dotter_usage.txt b/src/doc/User_doc/dotter_usage.txt
index eaab80d4364a428db94067b6bb59ac5c7e96e503..f672a3d08f0e54f07a2939a38ae441f5c35f881e 100644
--- a/src/doc/User_doc/dotter_usage.txt
+++ b/src/doc/User_doc/dotter_usage.txt
@@ -88,5 +88,5 @@
  See http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/seqtools/ for more info.
 
  Copyright (c) 2010-2011: Genome Research Ltd.
- Dotter is distributed under the GNU Public License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
+ Dotter is distributed under the Apache License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
 
diff --git a/src/seqtoolsUtils/version.hpp b/src/seqtoolsUtils/version.hpp
index 51cf7dfa0ae2585eef105cdbecbcfc7f9d9e772d..b629c4a07834903b66f763472ee9397e727d9fd1 100755
--- a/src/seqtoolsUtils/version.hpp
+++ b/src/seqtoolsUtils/version.hpp
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ PACKAGE_NAME " - " VERSION_STRING
 
 /* Make a licence string */
 #define UT_MAKE_LICENCE_STRING(TITLE) \
-TITLE" is distributed under the GNU Public License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt"
+TITLE" is distributed under the Apache License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt"
 
 
 /* Define the authors of the SeqTools package. AUTHOR_LIST is a comma-separated list of all authors
diff --git a/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test1_results b/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test1_results
index 795fdc9de268220161d724e89377b1d89122a1fa..780da03adb7dabbf085dc97f16866c5d714c7876 100644
--- a/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test1_results
+++ b/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test1_results
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ To make the datafile from blast output, run MSPcrunch with option -q.
  See http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/seqtools/ for more info.
 
  Copyright (c) 2009-2011: Genome Research Ltd.
- Blixem is distributed under the GNU Public License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
+ Blixem is distributed under the Apache License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
 
  Version 4.10-1-g6bff  17:38:25 Apr  4 2012
 
diff --git a/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test2_results b/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test2_results
index b516f5a9b8413ce7b814622212abcaa9faa21a84..7674d01cb27be63fcc0945fae6fa79b2dd3ae505 100644
--- a/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test2_results
+++ b/src/test/scripts/automated/blixem/test2_results
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
  Blixem - display multiple alignments against a reference sequence.
 
- Usage: blixem [options] [<sequencefile>] <datafile> [X options] 
+ Usage: blixem [options] [<sequencefile>] <datafile> [X options]
 
    <sequencefile> contains the reference sequence in FASTA format.
    <datafile> is a GFF v3 file containing alignments and other features.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 
 -----
  Written by Gemma Barson <gb10@sanger.ac.uk>
- Based on original code by Erik Sonnhammer <Erik.Sonnhammer@sbc.su.se> 
+ Based on original code by Erik Sonnhammer <Erik.Sonnhammer@sbc.su.se>
 
  Reference: Sonnhammer ELL & Durbin R (1994). A workbench for Large Scale
             Sequence Homology Analysis. Comput. Applic. Biosci. 10:301-307.
@@ -117,7 +117,6 @@
  See http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/seqtools/ for more info.
 
  Copyright (c) 2009-2011: Genome Research Ltd.
- Blixem is distributed under the GNU Public License; see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
+ Blixem is distributed under the Apache License;
 
  Version 4.10-1-g6bff  17:38:25 Apr  4 2012
-