diff --git a/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/LICENSE b/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b2cf6b06274a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+X Files is released under CC International BY-NC-SA 4.0 license:
+https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
+https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.it
diff --git a/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/README.chromium b/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/README.chromium
index 819c3947ca14..b3b00c322cdd 100644
--- a/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/README.chromium
+++ b/components/brave_shields/third_party/abp-xfiles/README.chromium
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 Name: ABP X Files
 URL: https://github.com/gioxx/xfiles/blob/master/filtri.txt
-License: unknown
+License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0