diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
index 851c904..bf4eeeb 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
@@ -590,6 +590,8 @@
 +----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
 | ``platforms``        | a list of platforms       | list of strings |        |
 +----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
+| ``license``          | license for the package   | short string    | \(6)   |
++----------------------+---------------------------+-----------------+--------+
 
 Notes:
 
@@ -611,6 +613,13 @@
     The ``long_description`` field is used by PyPI when you are registering a
     package, to build its home page.
 
+(6)
+    The ``license`` field is a text indicating the license covering the
+    package where the license is not a selection from the "License" Trove
+    classifiers. See the ``Classifier`` field. Notice that
+    there's a ``licence`` distribution option which is deprecated but still
+    acts as an alias for ``license``.
+
 'short string'
     A single line of text, not more than 200 characters.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 44f30e0..ab00d38 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #6287: Added the license field in Distutils documentation.
+
 - Issue #6286: Now Distutils upload command is based on urllib2 instead of
   httplib, allowing the usage of http_proxy.