diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb
index bf25d56ee9..1ed486df51 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "ZeroMQ looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.zeromq.org"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-or-later"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-with-zeromq-exception | LGPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=d5311495d952062e0e4fbba39cbf3de1"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "libsodium"