diff --git a/LibraryPolicyCheck.py b/LibraryPolicyCheck.py
index 1c37242..309d6d6 100644
--- a/LibraryPolicyCheck.py
+++ b/LibraryPolicyCheck.py
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ _policy_legacy_exceptions = (
         "liboil-0_3-0",
         "liboop4",
         "libopenal0",
+        "libopenal1",
         "libpgeasy3",
         "libportaudio2",
         "libqnotify0",
diff --git a/rpmlint.changes b/rpmlint.changes
index bc48ec4..5a9bddc 100644
--- a/rpmlint.changes
+++ b/rpmlint.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jun 26 13:54:35 UTC 2012 - lnussel@suse.de
+
+- add libopenal1 to legacy exceptions. It's a special case since the ABI for
+  openal is defined in a standard and there can be multiple
+  imlementations of the standard. Therefore it's necessary to have
+  some kind of prefix or suffix for packages that contain libopenal1
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 21 06:55:43 UTC 2012 - lnussel@suse.de