diff --git a/bison.changes b/bison.changes
index f8f6124..08b2043 100644
--- a/bison.changes
+++ b/bison.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar 12 21:47:19 UTC 2021 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
+
+- move COPYING file into licenses subdirectory 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar  9 19:51:28 UTC 2021 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/bison.spec b/bison.spec
index 66d90a8..d076b75 100644
--- a/bison.spec
+++ b/bison.spec
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@ Bison is a parser generator similar to yacc(1).
 %files lang -f %{name}.lang
 
 %files
-%{_docdir}/%{name}
+%license COPYING
+%doc AUTHORS NEWS README THANKS TODO
+%exclude %{_docdir}/%{name}/COPYING
+%doc %{_docdir}/%{name}/examples
 %dir %{_datadir}/aclocal
 %{_bindir}/bison
 %{_bindir}/yacc