diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8/drop-pytest-runner-from-setup_requires.patch b/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8/drop-pytest-runner-from-setup_requires.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a3f439
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8/drop-pytest-runner-from-setup_requires.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Remove unnecessary pytest-runner from setup_requires.
+
+Modelled after similar patch to python3-mccabe.
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+---
+diff -U3 -r flake8-3.5.0-orig/setup.py flake8-3.5.0/setup.py
+--- flake8-3.5.0-orig/setup.py	2019-04-25 15:11:52.406978457 -0700
++++ flake8-3.5.0/setup.py	2019-04-25 15:12:38.102978457 -0700
+@@ -142,6 +142,5 @@
+         "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+         "Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance",
+     ],
+-    tests_require=tests_require,
+-    setup_requires=['pytest-runner'],
++    tests_require=tests_require
+ )
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8_3.5.0.bb b/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8_3.5.0.bb
index ac1c394..d91a3fe 100644
--- a/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8_3.5.0.bb
+++ b/recipes-devtools/python/python3-flake8_3.5.0.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/dreamhost/cliff"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=7a76e57e683629e1ac2a49406169c2a3"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=75b26781f1adf1aa310bda6098937878"
+
+SRC_URI += " \
+    file://drop-pytest-runner-from-setup_requires.patch \
+"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7e5fe39d578a2c2d0962b61b35b8c3fc"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7253265f7abd8b313e3892944044a365e3f4ac3fcdcfb4298f55ee9ddf188ba0"