diff --git a/icu.changes b/icu.changes
index 88d28a1..af99052 100644
--- a/icu.changes
+++ b/icu.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 25 09:26:17 UTC 2013 - cfarrell@suse.com
+
+- license update: X11
+  official spdx.org license list now contains an entry for X11
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan 19 11:39:50 UTC 2013 - idonmez@suse.com
 
diff --git a/icu.spec b/icu.spec
index 6d147c5..f122237 100644
--- a/icu.spec
+++ b/icu.spec
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Version:        50.1.2
 Release:        0
 %define aversion 50_1_2
 Summary:        International Components for Unicode
-License:        SUSE-XFree86-1.0
+License:        X11
 Group:          System/Libraries
 Url:            http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu
 Source0:        http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/%{version}/icu4c-%{aversion}-src.tgz