diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8e41796..c54fc06 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ CLEAN_DIRS  += $(MODVERDIR) \
 	       $(foreach d, spl tpl, $(patsubst %,$d/%, \
 			$(filter-out include, $(shell ls -1 $d 2>/dev/null))))
 
-CLEAN_FILES += include/bmp_logo.h include/bmp_logo_data.h include/license.h \
+CLEAN_FILES += include/bmp_logo.h include/bmp_logo_data.h \
 	       boot* u-boot* MLO* SPL System.map
 
 # Directories & files removed with 'make mrproper'
diff --git a/cmd/.gitignore b/cmd/.gitignore
index 7800586..bab889f 100644
--- a/cmd/.gitignore
+++ b/cmd/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 config_data.gz
 config_data_gz.h
 config_data_size.h
+license_data.gz
+license_data_gz.h
+license_data_size.h
diff --git a/cmd/Kconfig b/cmd/Kconfig
index 57e8e42..25ac895 100644
--- a/cmd/Kconfig
+++ b/cmd/Kconfig
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ config CMD_CPU
 
 config CMD_LICENSE
 	bool "license"
+	select BUILD_BIN2C
 	help
 	  Print GPL license text
 
diff --git a/cmd/Makefile b/cmd/Makefile
index 1a04e7e..f13bb8c 100644
--- a/cmd/Makefile
+++ b/cmd/Makefile
@@ -187,3 +187,18 @@ $(obj)/config_data_gz.h: $(obj)/config_data.gz FORCE
 targets += config_data_size.h
 $(obj)/config_data_size.h: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) FORCE
 	$(call filechk,data_size)
+
+# "license" command
+$(obj)/license.o: $(obj)/license_data_gz.h $(obj)/license_data_size.h
+
+targets += license_data.gz
+$(obj)/license_data.gz: $(srctree)/Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,gzip)
+
+targets += license_data_gz.h
+$(obj)/license_data_gz.h: $(obj)/license_data.gz FORCE
+	$(call filechk,data_gz)
+
+targets += license_data_size.h
+$(obj)/license_data_size.h: $(srctree)/Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt FORCE
+	$(call filechk,data_size)
diff --git a/cmd/license.c b/cmd/license.c
index 5ee57f8..29fc8aa 100644
--- a/cmd/license.c
+++ b/cmd/license.c
@@ -6,31 +6,36 @@
  */
 
 #include <common.h>
-
-/* Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt is currently 18092 bytes in size */
-#define LICENSE_MAX	20480
-
 #include <command.h>
 #include <malloc.h>
-#include <license.h>
 
-int do_license(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
+#include "license_data_gz.h"
+#include "license_data_size.h"
+
+static int do_license(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
 {
-	char *dst = malloc(LICENSE_MAX);
-	unsigned long len = LICENSE_MAX;
+	char *dst;
+	unsigned long len = data_size;
+	int ret = CMD_RET_SUCCESS;
 
+	dst = malloc(data_size + 1);
 	if (!dst)
-		return -1;
+		return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
 
-	if (gunzip(dst, LICENSE_MAX, license_gzip, &len) != 0) {
+	ret = gunzip(dst, data_size, (unsigned char *)data_gz, &len);
+	if (ret) {
 		printf("Error uncompressing license text\n");
-		free(dst);
-		return -1;
+		ret = CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+		goto free;
 	}
+
+	dst[data_size] = 0;
 	puts(dst);
+
+free:
 	free(dst);
 
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 U_BOOT_CMD(
diff --git a/include/.gitignore b/include/.gitignore
index 75be527..8e41a95 100644
--- a/include/.gitignore
+++ b/include/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@
 /bmp_logo.h
 /bmp_logo_data.h
 /config.h
-/license.h
diff --git a/tools/Makefile b/tools/Makefile
index f5ac631..cbccd4a 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile
+++ b/tools/Makefile
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC ?= $(ENVCRC-y)
 
 hostprogs-$(CONFIG_SPL_GENERATE_ATMEL_PMECC_HEADER) += atmel_pmecc_params
 
-hostprogs-$(CONFIG_CMD_LICENSE) += bin2header
 hostprogs-$(CONFIG_LCD_LOGO) += bmp_logo
 hostprogs-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO) += bmp_logo
 HOSTCFLAGS_bmp_logo.o := -pedantic
@@ -233,10 +232,6 @@ endif
 
 endif # !LOGO_BMP
 
-# Generated gziped GPL-2.0 license text
-LICENSE_H = $(objtree)/include/license.h
-LICENSE-$(CONFIG_CMD_LICENSE) += $(LICENSE_H)
-
 #
 # Use native tools and options
 # Define __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES to prevent typedef overlaps
@@ -251,7 +246,7 @@ HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -include $(srctree)/include/libfdt_env.h \
 		-D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES \
 		-D_GNU_SOURCE
 
-__build:	$(LOGO-y) $(LICENSE-y)
+__build:	$(LOGO-y)
 
 $(LOGO_H):	$(obj)/bmp_logo $(LOGO_BMP)
 	$(obj)/bmp_logo --gen-info $(LOGO_BMP) > $@
@@ -259,10 +254,6 @@ $(LOGO_H):	$(obj)/bmp_logo $(LOGO_BMP)
 $(LOGO_DATA_H):	$(obj)/bmp_logo $(LOGO_BMP)
 	$(obj)/bmp_logo --gen-data $(LOGO_BMP) > $@
 
-$(LICENSE_H): $(obj)/bin2header $(srctree)/Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
-	cat $(srctree)/Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt | gzip -9 -c | \
-		$(obj)/bin2header license_gzip > $(LICENSE_H)
-
 # Let clean descend into subdirs
 subdir- += env
 
diff --git a/tools/bin2header.c b/tools/bin2header.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c2c23f..0000000
--- a/tools/bin2header.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-/* bin2header.c - program to convert binary file into a C structure
- * definition to be included in a header file.
- *
- * (C) Copyright 2008 by Harald Welte <laforge@openmoko.org>
- *
- * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
- */
-
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv)
-{
-	if (argc < 2) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "%s needs one argument: the structure name\n",
-			argv[0]);
-		exit(1);
-	}
-
-	printf("/* bin2header output - automatically generated */\n");
-	printf("unsigned char %s[] = {\n", argv[1]);
-
-	while (1) {
-		int i, nread;
-		unsigned char buf[10];
-		nread = read(0, buf, sizeof(buf));
-		if (nread <= 0)
-			break;
-
-		printf("\t");
-		for (i = 0; i < nread - 1; i++)
-			printf("0x%02x, ", buf[i]);
-
-		printf("0x%02x,\n", buf[nread-1]);
-	}
-
-	printf("};\n");
-
-	exit(0);
-}