diff --git a/utils/scanpypi b/utils/scanpypi
index 47c7c00c60..8327fc3fc5 100755
--- a/utils/scanpypi
+++ b/utils/scanpypi
@@ -495,8 +495,8 @@ class BuildrootPackage():
         """
         lines = []
 
-        filenames = ['LICENCE', 'LICENSE', 'LICENSE.RST', 'LICENSE.TXT',
-                     'COPYING', 'COPYING.TXT']
+        filenames = ['LICENCE', 'LICENSE', 'LICENSE.MD', 'LICENSE.RST',
+                     'LICENSE.TXT', 'COPYING', 'COPYING.TXT']
         self.license_files = list(find_file_upper_case(filenames, self.tmp_extract))
 
         lines.append(self.__get_license_names(self.license_files))