diff --git a/weechat.changes b/weechat.changes
index 5479873..863dc40 100644
--- a/weechat.changes
+++ b/weechat.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 21 16:49:05 UTC 2011 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- licenses package is about to die
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Feb 17 08:02:54 UTC 2011 - gber@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/weechat.spec b/weechat.spec
index 54cc6d2..e9a089d 100644
--- a/weechat.spec
+++ b/weechat.spec
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ BuildRequires:  libgpg-error-devel libgcrypt-devel
 BuildRequires:  autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig
 %if 0%{?suse_version:1}
 BuildRequires:  update-desktop-files
-%if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1030
-BuildRequires:  licenses
-Requires:       licenses
-%endif
 %endif
 
 %description
@@ -147,9 +143,6 @@ popd #build
 
 %find_lang "%{name}"
 
-h=/usr/share/doc/licenses/md5/$(md5sum COPYING|cut -f1 -d" ")
-test -e "$h" && %__ln_s -f "$h" COPYING
-
 %clean
 %{?buildroot:%__rm -rf "%{buildroot}"}