diff --git a/potrace.changes b/potrace.changes
index 931289f..c6356bb 100644
--- a/potrace.changes
+++ b/potrace.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 21 16:48:05 UTC 2011 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- licenses package is about to die
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan 11 23:16:21 UTC 2011 - mrdocs@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/potrace.spec b/potrace.spec
index bdab905..29f7ef1 100644
--- a/potrace.spec
+++ b/potrace.spec
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ Version:        1.9
 Release:        1
 License:        GPLv2+
 Group:          Productivity/Graphics/Convertors
-BuildRequires:  licenses zlib-devel
-Requires:       licenses
+BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
 Provides:       bitmap_tracing
 Url:            http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ make  %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 %makeinstall
-ln -sf /usr/share/doc/licenses/md5/$(md5sum COPYING | sed 's/ .*//') COPYING
 
 %clean
 rm -fr $RPM_BUILD_ROOT