diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/yasm/yasm_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/yasm/yasm_git.bb
index b20d4c05ca..dc4fbf7f57 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/yasm/yasm_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/yasm/yasm_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "x86 (SSE) assembler supporting NASM and GAS-syntaxes"
-LICENSE = "BSD"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a12d8903508fb6bfd49d8d82c6170dd9"