diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.2alpha.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.2alpha.bb
index 93099b070b..9f01e321ef 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.2alpha.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.1.2alpha.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,22 @@ DESCRIPTION = "utils for managing LZMA compressed files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://tukaani.org/xz/"
 SECTION = "base"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
+# The source includes bits of PD, GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPLv2.1+, but the only file
+# which is GPLv3 is an m4 macro which isn't shipped in any of our packages,
+# and the LGPL bits are under lib/, which appears to be used for libgnu, which
+# appears to be used for DOS builds. So we're left with GPLv2+ and PD.
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & GPLv3+ & LGPLv2.1+ & PD"
+LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE_${PN}-dev = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE_${PN}-staticdev = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE_${PN}-doc = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE_${PN}-dbg = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE_${PN}-locale = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE_liblzma = "PD"
+LICENSE_liblzma-dev = "PD"
+LICENSE_liblzma-staticdev = "PD"
+LICENSE_liblzma-dbg = "PD"
+
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c475b6c7dca236740ace4bba553e8e1c \
                     file://COPYING.GPLv2;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                     file://COPYING.GPLv3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \