diff --git a/legacy/evas/src/lib/Evas.h b/legacy/evas/src/lib/Evas.h
index 97042faf0b..ccd86b1cca 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/src/lib/Evas.h
+++ b/legacy/evas/src/lib/Evas.h
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ extern "C" {
    EAPI void              evas_hash_foreach                 (Evas_Hash *hash, Evas_Bool (*func) (Evas_Hash *hash, const char *key, void *data, void *fdata), const void *fdata);
    EAPI int               evas_hash_alloc_error             (void);
    
-   EAPI const char       *evas_stringshare_add              (const char *str);
+   EAPI char             *evas_stringshare_add              (const char *str);
    EAPI void              evas_stringshare_del              (const char *str);
        
 
diff --git a/legacy/evas/src/lib/data/evas_stringshare.c b/legacy/evas/src/lib/data/evas_stringshare.c
index cab05337eb..b5a6306e57 100644
--- a/legacy/evas/src/lib/data/evas_stringshare.c
+++ b/legacy/evas/src/lib/data/evas_stringshare.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static Evas_Stringshare share =
      }
 };
 
-EAPI const char *
+EAPI char *
 evas_stringshare_add(const char *str)
 {
    int hash_num, slen;