diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-prog.rst b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-prog.rst
index 67ca6c69376cd95a030142ee11f2d66778ddc0ec..43d34a5c3ec527a95b7bbde6f28616597faf9d66 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-prog.rst
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-prog.rst
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ EXAMPLES
 **# bpftool prog show**
 ::
 
-  10: xdp  name some_prog  tag 005a3d2123620c8b
+  10: xdp  name some_prog  tag 005a3d2123620c8b  gpl
 	loaded_at Sep 29/20:11  uid 0
 	xlated 528B  jited 370B  memlock 4096B  map_ids 10
 
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ EXAMPLES
                 "id": 10,
                 "type": "xdp",
                 "tag": "005a3d2123620c8b",
+                "gpl_compatible": true,
                 "loaded_at": "Sep 29/20:11",
                 "uid": 0,
                 "bytes_xlated": 528,
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
index 548adb9b73175e44f9ab6e9d856b7eae2c00265a..e71a0a11afde49844b1706512532375f7836a9fe 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
@@ -235,6 +235,8 @@ static void print_prog_json(struct bpf_prog_info *info, int fd)
 		     info->tag[0], info->tag[1], info->tag[2], info->tag[3],
 		     info->tag[4], info->tag[5], info->tag[6], info->tag[7]);
 
+	jsonw_bool_field(json_wtr, "gpl_compatible", info->gpl_compatible);
+
 	print_dev_json(info->ifindex, info->netns_dev, info->netns_ino);
 
 	if (info->load_time) {
@@ -295,6 +297,7 @@ static void print_prog_plain(struct bpf_prog_info *info, int fd)
 	printf("tag ");
 	fprint_hex(stdout, info->tag, BPF_TAG_SIZE, "");
 	print_dev_plain(info->ifindex, info->netns_dev, info->netns_ino);
+	printf("%s", info->gpl_compatible ? "  gpl" : "");
 	printf("\n");
 
 	if (info->load_time) {