diff --git a/LICENSES/README.md b/LICENSES/README.md
index bbe05a06f2c..f01049c13f1 100644
--- a/LICENSES/README.md
+++ b/LICENSES/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ The following exceptions apply:
  * the following sources are licensed under the **MIT** license (in case of our
    scripts, to facilitate copying and reuse of those helpers to other projects):
    - hwdb.d/parse_hwdb.py
-   - man/glib-event-glue.c
    - src/basic/linux/batman_adv.h
    - src/basic/sparse-endian.h
    - tools/catalog-report.py
diff --git a/man/glib-event-glue.c b/man/glib-event-glue.c
index 5201234d856..3741b5257bb 100644
--- a/man/glib-event-glue.c
+++ b/man/glib-event-glue.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 */
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <glib.h>