diff --git a/package/brltty/brltty.hash b/package/brltty/brltty.hash
index 3bc2f9cf54..01b4c13fcc 100644
--- a/package/brltty/brltty.hash
+++ b/package/brltty/brltty.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 sha256 4ebf1df5922df0efccac4795f5bd1c514fc850348c34d9ec0868e2798b565a36 brltty-5.5.tar.xz
 sha256 91df39d1816bfb17a4dda2d3d2c83b1f6f2d38d53e53e41e8f97ad5ac46a0cad LICENSE-GPL
 sha256 d80c9d084ebfb50ea1ed91bfbc2410d6ce542097a32c43b00781b83adcb8c77f LICENSE-LGPL
+sha256 6ba58188449642de8adefd7adabb436185792c5c51a4b5d04650423c2151dc50 README
diff --git a/package/brltty/brltty.mk b/package/brltty/brltty.mk
index df3e9c7888..0fcd4f4258 100644
--- a/package/brltty/brltty.mk
+++ b/package/brltty/brltty.mk
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ BRLTTY_SOURCE = brltty-$(BRLTTY_VERSION).tar.xz
 BRLTTY_SITE = http://brltty.com/archive
 BRLTTY_INSTALL_STAGING_OPTS = INSTALL_ROOT=$(STAGING_DIR) install
 BRLTTY_INSTALL_TARGET_OPTS = INSTALL_ROOT=$(TARGET_DIR) install
-BRLTTY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE-GPL LICENSE-LGPL
+BRLTTY_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+, LGPL-2.1+ (data, client side)
+BRLTTY_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE-GPL LICENSE-LGPL README
 
 BRLTTY_DEPENDENCIES = $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES) host-autoconf host-pkgconf \
 	$(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_AT_SPI2_CORE),at-spi2-core)