diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-license-expression.inc b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-license-expression.inc
deleted file mode 100644
index add25810d..000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-license-expression.inc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Utility library to parse, compare, simplify and normalize license expressions"
-HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/nexB/license-expression"
-
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://apache-2.0.LICENSE;md5=e23fadd6ceef8c618fc1c65191d846fa"
-
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "81477f779099f55071c6a7b88a29bb01"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8aaa455c5b97c4f2174090178b19792b2a1c620e80591aafd4e0a99b713f9e8d"
-
-inherit pypi ptest
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
-    ${PYTHON_PN}-booleanpy \
-    "
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
-
-SRC_URI += " \
-	file://run-ptest \
-"
-
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
-	${PYTHON_PN}-pytest \
-"
-
-do_install_ptest() {
-	install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
-	cp -rf ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
-}
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-license-expression_1.0.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-license-expression_1.0.bb
index 10a702ca4..b1c38e95d 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-license-expression_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-license-expression_1.0.bb
@@ -1,2 +1,29 @@
-inherit setuptools3
-require python-license-expression.inc
+SUMMARY = "Utility library to parse, compare, simplify and normalize license expressions"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/nexB/license-expression"
+
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://apache-2.0.LICENSE;md5=e23fadd6ceef8c618fc1c65191d846fa"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "81477f779099f55071c6a7b88a29bb01"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8aaa455c5b97c4f2174090178b19792b2a1c620e80591aafd4e0a99b713f9e8d"
+
+inherit pypi ptest setuptools3
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+    ${PYTHON_PN}-booleanpy \
+    "
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+SRC_URI += " \
+	file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+	${PYTHON_PN}-pytest \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+	install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+	cp -rf ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+}