diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/fakeroot/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/fakeroot/meta
index 44076f662e..f8b82dee10 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/fakeroot/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/fakeroot/meta
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
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 PKG_NAME="fakeroot"
-PKG_VERSION="1.16"
+PKG_VERSION="1.17"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
-PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL3"
 PKG_SITE="http://fakeroot.alioth.debian.org/"
 PKG_URL="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}.orig.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""