diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
index ea2ef5be63..94d52d6077 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py
@@ -1250,7 +1250,7 @@ def match_licenses(licfiles, srctree, d):
                 license = 'Unknown'
                 logger.info("Please add the following line for '%s' to a 'lib/recipetool/licenses.csv' " \
                     "and replace `Unknown` with the license:\n" \
-                    "%s,Unknown" % (os.path.relpath(licfile, srctree), md5value))
+                    "%s,Unknown" % (os.path.relpath(licfile, srctree + "/.."), md5value))
         if license:
             licenses.append((license, os.path.relpath(licfile, srctree), md5value))