diff --git a/icu.changes b/icu.changes
index cba9721..df59b93 100644
--- a/icu.changes
+++ b/icu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Jun 13 12:34:53 UTC 2012 - cfarrell@suse.com
+
+- license update: SUSE-XFree86-1.0
+  The license (as stated in the license.html page) is not upstream at
+  http://www.spdx.org/licenses yet - thus, use this version (with SUSE-
+  proprietary prefix until the license goes upstream)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Apr 10 10:22:49 UTC 2012 - cfarrell@suse.com
 
diff --git a/icu.spec b/icu.spec
index 96c1fcd..9877e39 100644
--- a/icu.spec
+++ b/icu.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Name:           icu
 Version:        49.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        International Components for Unicode
-License:        MIT and SUSE-Public-Domain
+License:        SUSE-XFree86-1.0
 Group:          System/Libraries
 Url:            http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu
 Source0:        icu4c-49_1-src.tgz