diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c5fa9ba84a..697accd004 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ def finalize_options(self):
 
     url='http://radimrehurek.com/gensim',
     download_url='http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gensim',
+    
+    license='LGPLv2.1',
 
     keywords='Singular Value Decomposition, SVD, Latent Semantic Indexing, '
         'LSA, LSI, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA, '