diff --git a/Installation/LICENSE b/Installation/LICENSE
index 42eca1e6c88..e6d53a60269 100644
--- a/Installation/LICENSE
+++ b/Installation/LICENSE
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ licenses:
   is licensed under a MIT like license (see LICENSE.RFL).
 
 All other files that do not have an explicit copyright notice (e.g., all
-examples and some demos) are licensed under the CC0 1.0 license. The
+examples and some demos) are licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 license. The
 exact text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/".
 
 More information on the CGAL license can be found at
diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
index a1094a297ba..a0cf2daa92e 100644
--- a/LICENSE.md
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ the source tarballs.
 A lot of files in the Git repository are not distributed in the source
 tarballs, for examples all the files in the `doc/` and `test/`
 sub-directories of CGAL packages. For all those files, unless they have an
-explicit license notice, the license is the CC0 1.0. The text can be found 
+explicit license notice, the license is the Creative Commons CC0 1.0. The text can be found 
 at https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ .