diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb
index 394a69e..65c20c0 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-ftp/netkit-ftp_0.17.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "netkit-ft includes the ftp client."
 SECTION = "net"
 HOMEPAGE="ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
+LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://ftp/ftp.c;beginline=2;endline=3;md5=2d40a75a50d83b8f6317b3f53db72bfa"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb
index ba1ad3f..c39faef 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rusers/netkit-rusers_0.17.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     rusersd - Logged in users server"
 HOMEPAGE = "ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit"
 SECTION = "net"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://rusers/rusers.c;beginline=2;endline=3;md5=f4fc634a4ce8c569911196b72b10770e"
 DEPENDS = " tcp-wrappers libtirpc rpcbind rpcsvc-proto rpcsvc-proto-native"
 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb
index 5685f03..60a8d95 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_0.17.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "netkit-rwho includes, ruptime rwho and rwhod (Daemon to maintain data for rwho/ruptime)"
 HOMEPAGE = "ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit"
 SECTION = "net"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
+LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://rwho/rwho.c;beginline=2;endline=3;md5=5a85f13c0142d72fc378e00f15da5b9e"
 
 SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/n/netkit-rwho/netkit-rwho_${PV}.orig.tar.gz;name=archive \
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb
index a8d98c9..cf99341 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-networking/recipes-netkit/netkit-telnet/netkit-telnet_0.17.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/netkit.html"
 SECTION = "net"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
+LICENSE = "BSD-4-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://telnet/telnet.cc;beginline=2;endline=3;md5=780868e7b566313e70cb701560ca95ef"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/${BP}.tar.gz \