diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/mdio-tools/mdio-tools.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-support/mdio-tools/mdio-tools.inc
index b99ce82810..fc8161eb1f 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/mdio-tools/mdio-tools.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/mdio-tools/mdio-tools.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "A low-level debug tool for communicating with devices attached to
 SECTION = "networking"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/wkz/mdio-tools"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/git/COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/wkz/mdio-tools.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
 SRCREV = "f74eaf38dbda441df4fcaeb21ca4465957953a2f"