diff --git a/package/devmem2/devmem2.hash b/package/devmem2/devmem2.hash
index fff5306b7e..aa638d631d 100644
--- a/package/devmem2/devmem2.hash
+++ b/package/devmem2/devmem2.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
 sha256 3b15515693bae1ebd14d914e46d388edfec2175829ea1576a7a0c8606ebbe639  devmem2.c
+sha256 560913d09310d446920c16bd0aca1ff21d3b6fedd527195bacfc832ce343e0ae  devmem2.c.license
diff --git a/package/devmem2/devmem2.mk b/package/devmem2/devmem2.mk
index 45d3c99663..eb92db6098 100644
--- a/package/devmem2/devmem2.mk
+++ b/package/devmem2/devmem2.mk
@@ -8,12 +8,17 @@ DEVMEM2_SITE = http://free-electrons.com/pub/mirror
 DEVMEM2_SOURCE = devmem2.c
 DEVMEM2_VERSION = 1
 DEVMEM2_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
-DEVMEM2_LICENSE_FILES = devmem2.c
+DEVMEM2_LICENSE_FILES = devmem2.c.license
 
 define DEVMEM2_EXTRACT_CMDS
 	cp $(DL_DIR)/$($(PKG)_SOURCE) $(@D)/
 endef
 
+define DEVMEM2_EXTRACT_LICENSE
+	head -n 38 $(@D)/devmem2.c >$(@D)/devmem2.c.license
+endef
+DEVMEM2_PRE_PATCH_HOOKS += DEVMEM2_EXTRACT_LICENSE
+
 define DEVMEM2_BUILD_CMDS
 	$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) devmem2
 endef