diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb
index 039c955..7e353d5 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 DEPENDS = "ncurses bison-native"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/telmich/gpm;protocol=git \
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/telmich/gpm;protocol=https;branch=master \
            file://init \
            file://gpm.service.in \
            "