diff --git a/package/tzdata/tzdata.mk b/package/tzdata/tzdata.mk
index b405f895cd..114d60195e 100644
--- a/package/tzdata/tzdata.mk
+++ b/package/tzdata/tzdata.mk
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ TZDATA_STRIP_COMPONENTS = 0
 TZDATA_DEPENDENCIES = host-tzdata
 HOST_TZDATA_DEPENDENCIES = host-zic
 TZDATA_LICENSE = Public domain
-HOST_TZDATA_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+TZDATA_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
 
 # Take care when re-ordering this list since this might break zone
 # dependencies
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@ define TZDATA_SET_LOCALTIME
 endef
 endif
 
-# No need to extract for target, we're using the host-installed files
-TZDATA_EXTRACT_CMDS =
-
 define TZDATA_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 0755 $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/zoneinfo
 	cp -a $(HOST_DIR)/share/zoneinfo/* $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/zoneinfo