diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8e69c58ee70..87242effa0d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,19 @@ For more information about this file see also [Keep a Changelog](http://keepacha
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Changed
+- The following components have changed their licensing. With approval of all their contributors, we now provide them under a BSD 3-clause license rather than the previously used NCSA Open Source license. As a reminder, we intend to relicense the entire system and this list will expand as we gather permission from the relevant copyright owners.
+    * Shiny apps `dbsync` and `Elicitation`
+
+### Removed
+
+
+## [1.8.0] - 2024-07-12
+
 ### Added
 - Created a new soilgrids function to extract the mean soil organic carbon profile with associated undertainty values at each depth for any lat/long location (#3040). Function was created for the CMS SDA workflow
 
diff --git a/shiny/Elicitation/LICENSE b/shiny/Elicitation/LICENSE
index 5a9e44128f1..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/shiny/Elicitation/LICENSE
+++ b/shiny/Elicitation/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-
-- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-  of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-  derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
diff --git a/shiny/dbsync/LICENSE b/shiny/dbsync/LICENSE
index 26efbfea4dc..09ef35a60b4 100644
--- a/shiny/dbsync/LICENSE
+++ b/shiny/dbsync/LICENSE
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
-## This is the master copy of the PEcAn License
-
-University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
-
-Copyright (c) 2012, University of Illinois, NCSA.  All rights reserved.
-
-PEcAn project
-www.pecanproject.org
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
-a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
-                                                            "Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
-without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-the following conditions:
-  
-  - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
-- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers in the
-documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-- Neither the names of University of Illinois, NCSA, nor the names
-of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
-derived from this Software without specific prior written permission.
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
-ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
-CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
-WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
-
+YEAR: 2024
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
+ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations