diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/Makefile
index 1951df24f40d..247470c75411 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=	rchardet
-PORTVERSION=	1.8.0
+PORTVERSION=	1.9.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ COMMENT=	Character encoding auto-detection in Ruby
 WWW=		https://github.com/jmhodges/rchardet
 
 LICENSE=	LGPL21
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LGPL-LICENSE.txt
 
-NO_ARCH=	yes
 USES=		gem
 
+NO_ARCH=	yes
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/distinfo b/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/distinfo
index 91b94b533723..c13e625b089d 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-rchardet/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1527942716
-SHA256 (rubygem/rchardet-1.8.0.gem) = 693acd5253d5ade81a51940697955f6dd4bb2f0d245bda76a8e23deec70a52c7
-SIZE (rubygem/rchardet-1.8.0.gem) = 153600
+TIMESTAMP = 1738090302
+SHA256 (rubygem/rchardet-1.9.0.gem) = 26889486cdd83b378652baf7603f71d93e431bb11bc237b4cd8c65151af4a590
+SIZE (rubygem/rchardet-1.9.0.gem) = 163840