diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb
index 1deb25a..7e0ff54d 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://memstattool.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "devtool"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/memstattool"