diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb
index 06078ed68b..6df19f98d2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/prelink/prelink_git.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = " The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared
 and executables, so that far fewer relocations need to be resolved at \
 runtime and thus programs come up faster."
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c93c0550bd3173f4504b2cbd8991e50b"
 PV = "1.0+git${SRCPV}"
 PR = "r0"