diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
index 8719884f25a7d5677e2273a12bc668db40f0686c..79853394831387949500478cd1ed7d44802d9d67 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gcr/gcr_3.40.0.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ GNOME desktop."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcr"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcr/issues"
 
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
 
 DEPENDS = "p11-kit glib-2.0 libgcrypt gnupg-native \