diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
index a7c10128b3..d0ed6013f7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Records are organized in hash table, B+ tree, or fixed-length array."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/"
 
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
 
 SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/t/${BPN}/${BPN}_${PV}.orig.tar.gz \