diff --git a/gdbm.spec b/gdbm.spec
index 9ccb6dd..a5aff19 100644
--- a/gdbm.spec
+++ b/gdbm.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Summary: A GNU set of database routines which use extensible hashing
 Name: gdbm
 Version: 1.11
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 Source: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-%{version}.tar.gz
 # Prevent gdbm from storing uninitialized memory content
 # to database files.
@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
 fi
 
 %files -f %{name}.lang
-%doc COPYING NEWS README THANKS AUTHORS NOTE-WARNING 
+%{!?_licensedir:%global license %%doc}
+%license COPYING
+%doc NEWS README THANKS AUTHORS NOTE-WARNING 
 %{_libdir}/libgdbm.so.4*
 %{_libdir}/libgdbm_compat.so.4*
 %{_bindir}/gdbm*
@@ -112,6 +114,9 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man3/* 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 12 2014 Tom Callaway <spot@fedoraproject.org> - 1.11-3
+- fix license handling
+
 * Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.11-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild