diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index a635a38ef9405fd..2dc64357c39dc8b 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ The Linux Kernel is provided under:
 	SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
 
 Being under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only,
-according with:
+according to:
 
 	LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0