diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
index ae80531f55..f715e360a4 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 6.1
 CIFS_UTILS_SOURCE  = cifs-utils-$(CIFS_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
 CIFS_UTILS_SITE    = http://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils
-CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE = GPLv3
+CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE = GPLv3+
 CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
 define CIFS_UTILS_NO_WERROR