diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gperftools/gperftools_2.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gperftools/gperftools_2.7.bb
index c48a98183d..fdb82519bc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gperftools/gperftools_2.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gperftools/gperftools_2.7.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Fast, multi-threaded malloc() and nifty performance analysis tools"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=762732742c73dc6c7fbe8632f06c059a"
 DEPENDS += "libunwind"