diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/bzip2 b/meta/files/common-licenses/bzip2-1.0.6
similarity index 100%
rename from meta/files/common-licenses/bzip2
rename to meta/files/common-licenses/bzip2-1.0.6
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
index 8e9b779e67..d58f553a49 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved
 LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceware.org/bzip2/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "bzip2"
+LICENSE = "bzip2-1.0.6"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;beginline=4;endline=37;md5=600af43c50f1fcb82e32f19b32df4664"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://sourceware.org/pub/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb
index 1275cc0097..d7450c73c1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pbzip2/pbzip2_1.1.13.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or \
 newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://compression.ca/pbzip2/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE = "bzip-1.0.6"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=398b8832c6f840cfebd20ab2be6a3743"
 
 DEPENDS = "bzip2"