diff --git a/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk b/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk
index 87ae4b36c5..05573ed727 100644
--- a/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk
+++ b/package/usbutils/usbutils.mk
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ USBUTILS_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf libusb
 USBUTILS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 # no configure in tarball
 USBUTILS_AUTORECONF = YES
+USBUTILS_LICENSE = GPLv2+
+USBUTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_USBUTILS_ZLIB),y)
 	USBUTILS_DEPENDENCIES += zlib