diff --git a/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.hash b/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.hash
index 83ad5b9212..83dc22b4a2 100644
--- a/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.hash
+++ b/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
 sha256 a433cc1dedba851078276db69b0e97f9fe41e4ba3336d2971adfca4b3a6242ac inotify-tools-3.20.1.tar.gz
+sha256 e41fc126320a79ed53b5aa3386f059f7d10770856d6fd714ab80a96ce6bd09d6 COPYING
diff --git a/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk b/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk
index 407aefb69f..63626307c2 100644
--- a/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk
+++ b/package/inotify-tools/inotify-tools.mk
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 INOTIFY_TOOLS_VERSION = 3.20.1
 INOTIFY_TOOLS_SITE = $(call github,rvoicilas,inotify-tools,$(INOTIFY_TOOLS_VERSION))
-INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPL
+INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 INOTIFY_TOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 INOTIFY_TOOLS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 INOTIFY_TOOLS_AUTORECONF = YES