diff --git a/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.8.2.ebuild b/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.8.2-r1.ebuild
similarity index 92%
rename from dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.8.2.ebuild
rename to dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.8.2-r1.ebuild
index 29c388bfc6..3c5073bc71 100644
--- a/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.8.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/confluent-kafka/confluent-kafka-1.8.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ BDEPEND="
 
 distutils_enable_tests pytest
 
+python_install_all() {
+	distutils-r1_python_install_all
+	rm "${ED}/usr/LICENSE.txt" || die
+}
+
 pkg_postinst() {
 	optfeature "avro support" dev-python/fastavro dev-python/avro dev-python/requests
 	optfeature "json support" dev-python/jsonschema dev-python/pyrsistent dev-python/requests