diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
index a36157ed5d16..fa406716fd0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools";
     description = "The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.";
-    license = licenses.publicDomain;
+    license = licenses.ncbiPd;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ thyol ];
     platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
   };