diff --git a/package/motion/motion.mk b/package/motion/motion.mk
index 7d73923284..4efcc54a0b 100644
--- a/package/motion/motion.mk
+++ b/package/motion/motion.mk
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 MOTION_VERSION = release-4.3.1
 MOTION_SITE = $(call github,Motion-Project,motion,$(MOTION_VERSION))
+MOTION_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
+MOTION_LICENSE_FILES = doc/COPYING
 MOTION_AUTORECONF = YES
 MOTION_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf ffmpeg jpeg libmicrohttpd
 MOTION_CONF_OPTS = --without-pgsql \