diff --git a/package/lsof/lsof.hash b/package/lsof/lsof.hash
index b6a29b3cea..d9e85ac15c 100644
--- a/package/lsof/lsof.hash
+++ b/package/lsof/lsof.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally calculated
 sha256  80308a614508814ac70eb2ae1ed2c4344dcf6076fa60afc7734d6b1a79e62b16  lsof-4.98.0.tar.gz
-sha256  32a728188b19bf86917659d904ab29d0a294b4506e1c98b8b7f1c70ab4975fe1  dialects/linux/dproto.h
+sha256  225222ff9bf38abc2cef7205e9b05c60935efa9ec28d1fd01e503c9316088718  COPYING
diff --git a/package/lsof/lsof.mk b/package/lsof/lsof.mk
index 8d9c1b60e3..303622d111 100644
--- a/package/lsof/lsof.mk
+++ b/package/lsof/lsof.mk
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@
 LSOF_VERSION = 4.98.0
 LSOF_SITE = $(call github,lsof-org,lsof,$(LSOF_VERSION))
 LSOF_LICENSE = lsof license
-# License is repeated in each file, this is a relatively small one.
-# It is also defined in 00README, but that contains a lot of other cruft.
-LSOF_LICENSE_FILES = dialects/linux/dproto.h
+LSOF_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 LSOF_CPE_ID_VENDOR = lsof_project
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBTIRPC),y)