diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb
index 98cd4d8103..6f0214aa60 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/go-helloworld_0.1.bb
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ SUMMARY = "This is a simple example recipe that cross-compiles a Go program."
 SECTION = "examples"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://golang.org/"
 
-LICENSE = "MIT"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/${GO_IMPORT}/LICENSE;md5=5d4950ecb7b26d2c5e4e7b4e0dd74707"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://go.googlesource.com/example;branch=master;protocol=https"
 SRCREV = "d9923f6970e9ba7e0d23aa9448ead71ea57235ae"