diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note
b/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7fc191baf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+insert GPL v2 text here
+
+   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
+ services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
+ of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
+ Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
+ Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
+ kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
+
+ Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
+ is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
+ v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
+
+                       Linus Torvalds
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
index 0132fcffb3..1765974666 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-yocto.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Linux kernel"
 SECTION = "kernel"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-with-Linux-syscall-note"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.yoctoproject.org/"

 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ?= "file://COPYING;md5=d7810fab7487fb0aad327b76f1be7cd7"