diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2009r.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2009r.bb
index c9a213b4f8..7fe1326ef1 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2009r.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/tzcode/tzcode-native_2009r.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "tzcode, timezone zoneinfo utils -- zic, zdump, tzselect"
-
+LICENSE = "Public Domain"
 PR = "r0"
 
 SRC_URI = "ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode${PV}.tar.gz \