diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix
index e2374bcd1e2f..2eeb17520f20 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/emboss/default.nix
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet)
     user community, including libraries. The software automatically copes with
     data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of
-    sequence data from the web.''; 
-    license     = "GPL2";
+    sequence data from the web.'';
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
     homepage    = "http://emboss.sourceforge.net/";
   };
 }