diff --git a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
index e2530c0a0..cfa2b910b 100644
--- a/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
+++ b/package/cifs-utils/cifs-utils.mk
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.5
+CIFS_UTILS_VERSION = 5.6
 CIFS_UTILS_SOURCE  = cifs-utils-$(CIFS_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2
 CIFS_UTILS_SITE    = http://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils
+CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE = GPLv3
+CIFS_UTILS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 
 define CIFS_UTILS_NO_WERROR
 	$(SED) 's/-Werror//' $(@D)/Makefile.in