diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
index 8d95698743..a7f01cd045 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-common.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ SUMMARY = "GNU cc and gcc C compilers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/"
 DESCRIPTION = "The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Go, and D, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++,...). GCC was originally written as the compiler for the GNU operating system."
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPL"
 
 NATIVEDEPS = ""