diff --git a/licenses.config b/licenses.config
index 9c2c877..90f82b6 100644
--- a/licenses.config
+++ b/licenses.config
@@ -12,158 +12,6 @@ their exact spelling.""")
 
 # from http://www.spdx.org/licenses/
 setOption('ValidLicenses', (
-    'AFL-1.2',
-    'AFL-2.0',
-    'AFL-2.1',
-    'AFL-3.0',
-    'APL-1.0',
-    'ANTLR-PD',
-    'Apache-1.0',
-    'Apache-1.1',
-    'Apache-2.0',
-    'APSL-1.0',
-    'APSL-1.1',
-    'APSL-1.2',
-    'APSL-2.0',
-    'Artistic-1.0',
-    'Artistic-2.0',
-    'AAL',
-    'BSL-1.0',
-    'BSD-2-Clause',
-    'BSD-3-Clause',
-    'BSD-4-Clause',
-    'CECILL-1.0',
-    'CECILL-1.1English',
-    'CECILL-2.0',
-    'CECILL-B',
-    'CECILL-C',
-    'ClArtistic',
-    'CDDL-1.0',
-    'CPAL-1.0',
-    'CPL-1.0',
-    'CATOSL-1.1',
-    'CC-BY-1.0',
-    'CC-BY-2.0',
-    'CC-BY-2.5',
-    'CC-BY-3.0',
-    'CC-BY-ND-1.0',
-    'CC-BY-ND-2.0',
-    'CC-BY-ND-2.5',
-    'CC-BY-ND-3.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-1.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-2.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-2.5',
-    'CC-BY-NC-3.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-ND-1.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-ND-2.5',
-    'CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-SA-1.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0',
-    'CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5',
-    'CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0',
-    'CC-BY-SA-1.0',
-    'CC-BY-SA-2.0',
-    'CC-BY-SA-2.5',
-    'CC-BY-SA-3.0',
-    'CC0-1.0',
-    'CUA-OPL-1.0',
-    'EPL-1.0',
-    'eCos-2.0',
-    'ECL-1.0',
-    'ECL-2.0',
-    'EFL-1.0',
-    'EFL-2.0',
-    'Entessa',
-    'ErlPL-1.1',
-    'EUDatagrid',
-    'EUPL-1.0',
-    'EUPL-1.1',
-    'Fair',
-    'Frameworx-1.0',
-    'AGPL-3.0',
-    'GFDL-1.1',
-    'GFDL-1.2',
-    'GFDL-1.3',
-    'GPL-1.0',
-    'GPL-1.0+',
-    'GPL-2.0',
-    'GPL-2.0+',
-    'GPL-2.0-with-autoconf-exception',
-    'GPL-2.0-with-bison-exception',
-    'GPL-2.0-with-classpath-exception',
-    'GPL-2.0-with-font-exception',
-    'GPL-2.0-with-GCC-exception',
-    'GPL-3.0',
-    'GPL-3.0+',
-    'GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception',
-    'GPL-3.0-with-GCC-exception',
-    'LGPL-2.1',
-    'LGPL-2.1+',
-    'LGPL-3.0',
-    'LGPL-3.0+',
-    'LGPL-2.0',
-    'LGPL-2.0+',
-    'gSOAP-1.3b',
-    'HPND',
-    'IPL-1.0',
-    'IPA',
-    'ISC',
-    'LPPL-1.0',
-    'LPPL-1.1',
-    'LPPL-1.2',
-    'LPPL-1.3c',
-    'Libpng',
-    'LPL-1.02',
-    'MS-PL',
-    'MS-RL',
-    'MirOS',
-    'MIT',
-    'Motosoto',
-    'MPL-1.0',
-    'MPL-1.1',
-    'Multics',
-    'NASA-1.3',
-    'Naumen',
-    'NGPL',
-    'Nokia',
-    'NPOSL-3.0',
-    'NTP',
-    'OCLC-2.0',
-    'ODbL-1.0',
-    'PDDL-1.0',
-    'OGTSL',
-    'OSL-1.0',
-    'OSL-2.0',
-    'OSL-3.0',
-    'OLDAP-2.8',
-    'OpenSSL',
-    'PHP-3.01',
-    'PostgreSQL',
-    'Python-2.0',
-    'QPL-1.0',
-    'RPSL-1.0',
-    'RPL-1.5',
-    'RHeCos-1.1',
-    'RSCPL',
-    'Ruby',
-    'SAX-PD',
-    'OFL-1.1',
-    'SimPL-2.0',
-    'Sleepycat',
-    'SugarCRM-1.1.3',
-    'SPL-1.0',
-    'Watcom-1.0',
-    'NCSA',
-    'VSL-1.0',
-    'W3C',
-    'WXwindows',
-    'Xnet',
-    'XFree86-1.1',
-    'YPL-1.1',
-    'Zimbra-1.3',
-    'Zlib',
-    'ZPL-1.1',
-    'ZPL-2.0',
-    'ZPL-2.1',
+	# generated in spec file
+	#VALIDLICENSES
 ))
diff --git a/rpmlint.changes b/rpmlint.changes
index ac273e4..c1a3cf7 100644
--- a/rpmlint.changes
+++ b/rpmlint.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 16 10:56:26 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- create the valid licenses from list tracked by SUSE legal (dumped
+  into obs-service_format_spec_file, so use that one as buildrequire)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec 13 14:31:28 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/rpmlint.spec b/rpmlint.spec
index 0402aad..a6225e5 100644
--- a/rpmlint.spec
+++ b/rpmlint.spec
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #!BuildIgnore: rpmlint-mini
 
 Name:           rpmlint
+BuildRequires:  obs-service-format_spec_file
 BuildRequires:  rpm-python
 BuildRequires:  xz
 Summary:        Rpm correctness checker
@@ -240,7 +241,13 @@ head -n 8 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/rpmlint/config > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/rpmlint
 python -tt %{SOURCE100} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/rpmlint/*.py $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/rpmlint/config
 %__install -m 644 %{SOURCE20} %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rpmlint/
 %__install -m 644 %{SOURCE24} %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rpmlint/
-%__install -m 644 %{SOURCE25} %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rpmlint/
+
+cp %{SOURCE25} licenses.config
+# note there is a tab character behind the -d, so don't copy&paste lightly
+cut '-d	' -f1 /usr/lib/obs/service/format_spec_file.files/licenses_changes.txt | tail -n +2 | sort -u | while read l; do
+  sed -i -e "s/\(#VALIDLICENSES\)/\1\n	'$l',/" licenses.config
+done
+%__install -m 644  licenses.config %{buildroot}/%{_sysconfdir}/rpmlint/
 
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT