diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtkhtml2/gtkhtml2_svn.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtkhtml2/gtkhtml2_svn.bb
index 07b3075634..a217775170 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gtkhtml2/gtkhtml2_svn.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gtkhtml2/gtkhtml2_svn.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ glib-2.0 libxml2"
 DESCRIPTION = "A GTK+ HTML rendering library."
-LICENSE = "GPL"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
 PV = "2.11.0+svnr${SRCREV}"
 PR = "r1"