diff --git a/package/gstreamer/gstreamer/gstreamer.mk b/package/gstreamer/gstreamer/gstreamer.mk
index cc035c0673..f2bde30d29 100644
--- a/package/gstreamer/gstreamer/gstreamer.mk
+++ b/package/gstreamer/gstreamer/gstreamer.mk
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ GSTREAMER_VERSION = 0.10.36
 GSTREAMER_SOURCE = gstreamer-$(GSTREAMER_VERSION).tar.xz
 GSTREAMER_SITE = http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer
 GSTREAMER_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+# COPYING is in fact v2, but most of the code is v2.1+
+GSTREAMER_LICENSE = LGPLv2.1+
+GSTREAMER_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
 # Checking if unaligned memory access works correctly cannot be done when cross
 # compiling. For the following architectures there is no information available