recipes: Update LICENSE variable to use SPDX license identifiers

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
author: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> 2022-03-04 00:44:20 -0800
committer: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> 2022-03-04 17:41:45 -0800
commit: 14c7d8a0d7cb843ac8b0d25cc4170fa640ac1295 (patch)
tree: 5b71e3261028cf7043840154af1a9ae140b8a61e
parent: 66298242119cf805e757b9af8a7ceaf39c05d69a (diff)
download: meta-openembedded-14c7d8a0d7cb843ac8b0d25cc4170fa640ac1295.tar.gz
482 files changed, 537 insertions, 537 deletions
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/gnome-layer/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox-xdgmenu_0.3.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/gnome-layer/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox-xdgmenu_0.3.bb
index 52dab107b..90d688090 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/gnome-layer/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox-xdgmenu_0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/gnome-layer/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox-xdgmenu_0.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Openbox configuration tool"
 AUTHOR = "Siegfried Gevatter"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/openbox-xdgmenu/"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949"
 DEPENDS = " \
    gnome-menus \
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb
index f55247d9e..7bca24cc0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-bsp/rwmem/rwmem_1.2.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ can thus be used to access devices which have memory mapped registers. \
 \
 In i2c mode rwmem accesses an i2c peripheral by sending i2c messages to it."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS += "python3 python3-pybind11"
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-connectivity/lirc/lirc_0.10.1.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-connectivity/lirc/lirc_0.10.1.bb
index f3070c5d2..c8929b75a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-connectivity/lirc/lirc_0.10.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-connectivity/lirc/lirc_0.10.1.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DESCRIPTION:append:lirc-remotes = " This package contains some config files for
 DESCRIPTION:append:lirc-nslu2example = " This package contains a working config for RC5 remotes and a modified NSLU2."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lirc.org"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = "libxslt-native alsa-lib libftdi libusb1 libusb-compat jack portaudio-v19 python3-pyyaml python3-setuptools-native"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-extended/lcdproc/lcdproc_git.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-extended/lcdproc/lcdproc_git.bb
index 46ca77f20..76a931666 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-extended/lcdproc/lcdproc_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-extended/lcdproc/lcdproc_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ shipped with this package can be used to acquire various kinds of system stats."
 SUMMARY = "Drivers for character-based LCD displays"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://lcdproc.org"
 SECTION = "utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses lirc"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=18810669f13b87348459e611d31ab760 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-support/smem/smem_1.5.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-support/smem/smem_1.5.bb
index 544c15421..9f8553206 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-support/smem/smem_1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-support/smem/smem_1.5.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ libraries and applications in a virtual memory system."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.selenic.com/smem/"
 SECTION = "Applications/System"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 HG_CHANGESET = "98273ce331bb"
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/debsums/debsums_2.2.2.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/debsums/debsums_2.2.2.bb
index 8c53af4cf..252db1994 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/debsums/debsums_2.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/debsums/debsums_2.2.2.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ archive."
 DESCRIPTION:${PN}-cron = "Cron scripts to control automatic system integrity \
 checking via debsums."
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://debian/copyright;md5=770d751553e6559e9eaefd2e11ccf7e9"
 SRC_URI = "http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170530T212108Z/pool/main/d/debsums/debsums_2.2.2.tar.xz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/rasdaemon/rasdaemon_0.6.7.bb b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/rasdaemon/rasdaemon_0.6.7.bb
index 464d82f4c..f30822b06 100644
--- a/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/rasdaemon/rasdaemon_0.6.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/dynamic-layers/perl-layer/recipes-support/rasdaemon/rasdaemon_0.6.7.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Tools to provide a way to get Platform Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) reports made via the Kernel tracing events"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://git.infradead.org/users/mchehab/rasdaemon.git"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d3070efe0afa3dc41608bd82c00bb0dc"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/mchehab/rasdaemon.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/bonnie/bonnie++_1.04.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/bonnie/bonnie++_1.04.bb
index 91387176b..c305aadd0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/bonnie/bonnie++_1.04.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/bonnie/bonnie++_1.04.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tests large file IO and creation/deletion of small files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/"
 SECTION = "benchmark/tests"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://copyright.txt;md5=cd4dde95a6b9d122f0a9150ae9cc3ee0"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/${BPN}_${PV}.tgz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/dbench/dbench_4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/dbench/dbench_4.0.bb
index 517958b15..32f51fee4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/dbench/dbench_4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/dbench/dbench_4.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "The dbench (disk) and tbench (TCP) benchmarks"
 SUMMARY:dbench = "Filesystem load benchmark"
 SUMMARY:tbench = "TCP load benchmark"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "popt"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/fio/fio_3.29.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/fio/fio_3.29.bb
index 54e2f332b..72479ce50 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/fio/fio_3.29.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/fio/fio_3.29.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job \
 files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freecode.com/projects/fio"
 SECTION = "console/tests"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "libaio zlib coreutils-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/glmark2/glmark2_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/glmark2/glmark2_git.bb
index 2a8ce54c8..47d927397 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/glmark2/glmark2_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/glmark2/glmark2_git.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ It uses only the subset of the OpenGL 2.0 API that is compatible with OpenGL ES
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/glmark2/glmark2"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/glmark2/glmark2/issues"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & SGIv1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later & SGI-1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://COPYING.SGI;beginline=5;md5=269cdab4af6748677acce51d9aa13552"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs_git.bb
index b0e7475bd..80af9873b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library which provides easy access to huge pages of memory"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LGPL-2.1;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 DEPENDS = "sysfsutils"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb
index 7d141d8c7..2046b13f4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/lmbench/lmbench_3.0-a9.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tools for performance analysis"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://lmbench.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPL-2.0-with-lmbench-restriction"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-with-lmbench-restriction"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b \
                    file://COPYING-2;md5=8e9aee2ccc75d61d107e43794a25cdf9"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/mbw/mbw_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/mbw/mbw_git.bb
index 3738036a8..52b939950 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/mbw/mbw_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/mbw/mbw_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "MBW determines the copy memory bandwidth available to userspace programs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/raas/mbw"
 SECTION = "console/tests"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://mbw.spec;beginline=1;endline=10;md5=bbb77813272134a5c461f71abe945bef"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/raas/${BPN}.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/memtester/memtester_4.5.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/memtester/memtester_4.5.1.bb
index 1628a0519..9df450cba 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/memtester/memtester_4.5.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/memtester/memtester_4.5.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Utility to test for faulty memory subsystem"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite_10.8.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite_10.8.1.bb
index a83e09d2b..6d181a5bb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite_10.8.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite_10.8.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Phoronix Test Suite"
 DESCRIPTION = "The Phoronix Test Suite is designed to carry out both qualitative \
 and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner."
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SECTION = "console/tests"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/qperf/qperf_0.4.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/qperf/qperf_0.4.11.bb
index f21af4b80..972232347 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/qperf/qperf_0.4.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/qperf/qperf_0.4.11.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Measure socket and RDMA performance"
 DESCRIPTION = "qperf measures bandwidth and latency between two nodes."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/linux-rdma/qperf"
 AUTHOR = "Johann George"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 inherit autotools-brokensep
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb
index a0df05c94..629b12304 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/s-suite/s-suite_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Small collection of benchmarks for storage I/O"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b529aaa6a0c50f15d29f89609b5c22f3"
 SRCREV = "f97f1ae321d1fb8111a2c638075702ed2512ff07"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/sysbench/sysbench_0.4.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/sysbench/sysbench_0.4.12.bb
index 46b6788a8..22c634af0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/sysbench/sysbench_0.4.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/sysbench/sysbench_0.4.12.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "System performance benchmark"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/akopytov/sysbench"
 SECTION = "console/tests"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 inherit autotools
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/tiobench/tiobench_0.3.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/tiobench/tiobench_0.3.3.bb
index c9e2958a6..5efddfcc9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/tiobench/tiobench_0.3.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/tiobench/tiobench_0.3.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Threaded I/O tester"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiobench/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c93c0550bd3173f4504b2cbd8991e50b"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/acpitool/acpitool_0.5.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/acpitool/acpitool_0.5.1.bb
index bc9669d0f..b392581ec 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/acpitool/acpitool_0.5.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/acpitool/acpitool_0.5.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Acpitool is a Linux ACPI client. It simply reads /proc/acpi or /sys/class entries \
 and presents the output in a meaningfull, human-readable format."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freeunix.dyndns.org:8088/site2/acpitool.shtml"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/${BPN}/${BPN}/${PV}/${BP}.tar.bz2 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/con2fbmap/con2fbmap_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/con2fbmap/con2fbmap_git.bb
index 2edb7c396..5d1c5ba7e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/con2fbmap/con2fbmap_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/con2fbmap/con2fbmap_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Simple utility for swapping an fbtft-based device as the console."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.com/pibox/con2fbmap"
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 DEPENDS = ""
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb
index ff4145996..1304ba9e0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_008.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ inherit gettext
 DEPENDS = "libtool-cross"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRCREV = "a2f0c39d5f21596bb9f5223e895c0ff210b265d0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/edac-utils/edac-utils_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/edac-utils/edac-utils_git.bb
index 5d616496f..da08979d7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/edac-utils/edac-utils_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/edac-utils/edac-utils_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Userspace helper for Linux kernel EDAC drivers"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/grondo/edac-utils"
 SECTION = "Applications/System"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = " sysfsutils"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/flashrom/flashrom_1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/flashrom/flashrom_1.2.bb
index 1d0613214..bdc3ca084 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/flashrom/flashrom_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/flashrom/flashrom_1.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://flashrom.org"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd-efi_1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd-efi_1.2.bb
index b88db2e53..bcad2416c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd-efi_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd-efi_1.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "EFI executable for fwupd"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/fwupd/fwupd-efi;protocol=https;branch=main \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd_1.7.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd_1.7.3.bb
index b02e8caa2..93c0e741e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd_1.7.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/fwupd/fwupd_1.7.3.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A simple daemon to allow session software to update firmware"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libxmlb json-glib sqlite3 libjcat gcab vala-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb
index ebd034ac1..fa1bb928c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/irda-utils/irda-utils_0.9.18.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ such as phones and laptops."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://irda.sourceforge.net/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/p/irda/bugs/"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://irdadump/COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                    file://smcinit/COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                    file://man/COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/ledmon/ledmon_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/ledmon/ledmon_git.bb
index f1c859dda..dbfd1e7bc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/ledmon/ledmon_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/ledmon/ledmon_git.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The utilities are designed primarily to be used on storage server
 "
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/intel/ledmon"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors-config_1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors-config_1.0.bb
index 038f0c674..25ab44f75 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors-config_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors-config_1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "lm_sensors configuration files"
 DESCRIPTION = "Hardware health monitoring configuration files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lm-sensors.org/"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/COPYING.MIT;md5=3da9cfbcb788c80a0384361b4de20420"
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors_3.6.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors_3.6.0.bb
index 55e303f0d..f821cdaf4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors_3.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lm_sensors/lmsensors_3.6.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Hardware health monitoring applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
                    file://COPYING.LGPL;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lsscsi/lsscsi_0.31.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lsscsi/lsscsi_0.31.bb
index 2c96de163..54faaa384 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lsscsi/lsscsi_0.31.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/lsscsi/lsscsi_0.31.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "The lsscsi command lists information about SCSI devices in Linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 SECTION = "base"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/nvme-cli/nvme-cli_1.13.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/nvme-cli/nvme-cli_1.13.bb
index 7f087da7c..1055fa42a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/nvme-cli/nvme-cli_1.13.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/nvme-cli/nvme-cli_1.13.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "NVMe management command line interface"
 AUTHOR = "Stefan Wiehler <stefan.wiehler@missinglinkelectronics.com>"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=8264535c0c4e9c6c335635c4026a8022"
 DEPENDS = "util-linux"
 PV .= "+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils_018.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils_018.bb
index 3ffbf6f59..42dfcd1e5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils_018.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-bsp/pcmciautils/pcmciautils_018.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Linux kernel userland utilities for the PCMCIA subsystem"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/"
 SECTION = "kernel/userland"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "udev sysfsutils flex-native bison-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gammu/gammu_1.42.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gammu/gammu_1.42.0.bb
index ce78fdeb1..aa52f6257 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gammu/gammu_1.42.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gammu/gammu_1.42.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "GNU All Mobile Managment Utilities"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wammu.eu/"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gattlib/gattlib_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gattlib/gattlib_git.bb
index 3fe4c9404..1ba7dd4af 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gattlib/gattlib_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gattlib/gattlib_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Bluetooth library with attribute support"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+ | BSD-3-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later | BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://CMakeLists.txt;beginline=1;endline=6;md5=71fdd2be76b4e95fe28324a70d4981c5"
 DEPENDS = "bluez5 glib-2.0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gensio/gensio_2.3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gensio/gensio_2.3.1.bb
index 876cf1375..a6e007553 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gensio/gensio_2.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/gensio/gensio_2.3.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library to abstract stream I/O like serial port, TCP, telnet, etc"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/cminyard/gensio"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0 & LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=a0fd36908af843bcee10cb6dfc47fa67 \
                    file://COPYING;md5=bae3019b4c6dc4138c217864bd04331f \
                    "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ifplugd/ifplugd_0.28.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ifplugd/ifplugd_0.28.bb
index 3e6a01de8..62651bc30 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ifplugd/ifplugd_0.28.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ifplugd/ifplugd_0.28.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "ifplugd is a Linux daemon which will automatically configure your ethernet device \
 when a cable is plugged in and automatically unconfigure it if the cable is pulled."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "libdaemon"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/irssi/irssi_1.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/irssi/irssi_1.2.3.bb
index bb476ca71..b0fde5ed1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/irssi/irssi_1.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/irssi/irssi_1.2.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "ncurses IRC client"
 DESCRIPTION = "Irssi is an ncurses IRC client"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55fdc1113306167d6ea2561404ce02f8"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 ncurses openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iwd/iwd_1.25.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iwd/iwd_1.25.bb
index 055c68921..a89ac3d90 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iwd/iwd_1.25.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/iwd/iwd_1.25.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Wireless daemon for Linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://iwd.wiki.kernel.org/"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fb504b67c50331fc78734fed90fb0e09"
 DEPENDS = "ell"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libev/libev_4.33.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libev/libev_4.33.bb
index 528b4e8b1..346e78b1d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libev/libev_4.33.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libev/libev_4.33.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely \
 modelled after libevent."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html"
-LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause | GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause | GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d6ad416afd040c90698edcdf1cbee347"
 SRC_URI = "http://dist.schmorp.de/libev/Attic/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice_1.3.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice_1.3.0.bb
index 4d873d4d9..41b8d94a0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice_1.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice_1.3.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A protocol library to access an iPhone or iPod Touch in Linux"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
    file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07 \
    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6ab17b41640564434dda85c06b7124f7 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmbim/libmbim_1.26.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmbim/libmbim_1.26.2.bb
index 5cd2a7e07..66d55f9c0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmbim/libmbim_1.26.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmbim/libmbim_1.26.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "libmbim is library for talking to WWAN devices by MBIM protocol"
 DESCRIPTION = "libmbim is a glib-based library for talking to WWAN modems and devices which speak the Mobile Interface Broadband Model (MBIM) protocol"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libmbim/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmtp/libmtp_1.1.18.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmtp/libmtp_1.1.18.bb
index 7e3f91a41..8a27cf9b9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmtp/libmtp_1.1.18.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libmtp/libmtp_1.1.18.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Protocol (MTP) in the form of a library suitable primarily for POSIX \
 compliant operating systems"
 SUMMARY = "libmtp is an Initiator implementation of the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
    file://COPYING;md5=0448d3676bc0de00406af227d341a4d1 \
    file://src/ptp.c;beginline=3;endline=22;md5=303cc4422fd549ef8689aded20434a9a \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libndp/libndp_1.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libndp/libndp_1.8.bb
index 06fd0f769..4d4d3e51c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libndp/libndp_1.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libndp/libndp_1.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libndp.org/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jpirko/libndp;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb
index 1c3419c6d..2fa24b29b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/libtorrent/libtorrent_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, \
 with a focus on high performance and good code."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 DEPENDS = "zlib libsigc++-2.0 openssl cppunit"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/linuxptp/linuxptp_3.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/linuxptp/linuxptp_3.1.1.bb
index f3dc5d15d..9c0f56e73 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/linuxptp/linuxptp_3.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/linuxptp/linuxptp_3.1.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Precision Time Protocol (PTP) according to IEEE standard 1588 for Linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linuxptp.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxptp/files/v3.1/linuxptp-${PV}.tgz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.4.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.4.3.bb
index 4f1430b9e..7b5eecf54 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.4.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/loudmouth/loudmouth_1.4.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Loudmouth is a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming with the Jabber protocol."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.loudmouth-project.org/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c4f38aef94828f6b280e00d1173be689"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libcheck openssl libidn"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/mosh/mosh_1.3.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/mosh/mosh_1.3.2.bb
index 220c0a886..0921db5e0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/mosh/mosh_1.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/mosh/mosh_1.3.2.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ editing of user keystrokes. Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It's more \
 robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and \
 long-distance links."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mosh.mit.edu"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "protobuf-native protobuf ncurses zlib libio-pty-perl openssl libutempter"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/obex-data-server_0.4.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/obex-data-server_0.4.6.bb
index a181ef0e1..b2a204403 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/obex-data-server_0.4.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/obex-data-server_0.4.6.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "obex-data-server is a D-Bus service providing high-level OBEX client and server side functionality"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+ dbus-glib dbus-glib-native imagemagick openobex bluez5"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/openobex_1.7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/openobex_1.7.2.bb
index 420d563ac..734827494 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/openobex_1.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obex/openobex_1.7.2.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The Openobex project is an open source implementation of the \
 Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://openobex.triq.net"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a \
                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343 \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obexftp/obexftp_0.24.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obexftp/obexftp_0.24.2.bb
index 9c9c5965e..f7a98fb61 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obexftp/obexftp_0.24.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/obexftp/obexftp_0.24.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A tool for transfer files to/from any OBEX enabled device"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & PD & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & PD & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LGPL-2.1.txt;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                    file://GPL-2.txt;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                    file://License.txt;md5=fcbddc3c1debed80dd80da2d3e5f0dc1 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rfkill/rfkill_1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rfkill/rfkill_1.0.bb
index ac0e8b768..c9c0738ab 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rfkill/rfkill_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rfkill/rfkill_1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Radio enable/disable command line utility"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/rfkill"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "BSD-0-Clause"
+LICENSE = "0BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c6036d0eb7edbfced28c4160e5d3fa94"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.xz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rtorrent/rtorrent_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rtorrent/rtorrent_git.bb
index 0f3b5e297..7879324cc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rtorrent/rtorrent_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/rtorrent/rtorrent_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Torrent client"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "libsigc++-2.0 curl cppunit libtorrent ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ser2net/ser2net_4.3.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ser2net/ser2net_4.3.5.bb
index 63b97d20b..79d54038e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ser2net/ser2net_4.3.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/ser2net/ser2net_4.3.5.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "A serial to network proxy"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/ser2net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bae3019b4c6dc4138c217864bd04331f"
 DEPENDS = "gensio libyaml"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/smstools3/smstools3_3.1.21.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/smstools3/smstools3_3.1.21.bb
index ca4095753..9e5496863 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/smstools3/smstools3_3.1.21.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/smstools3/smstools3_3.1.21.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "SMS Gateway software"
 DESCRIPTION = "The SMS Server Tools 3 is a SMS Gateway software which can send and receive short messages through GSM modems and mobile phones."
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=4d21efa1bb2a186360dde4035f860682"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-glib_0.24.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-glib_0.24.1.bb
index e070d1b53..1891eae40 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-glib_0.24.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-glib_0.24.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Telepathy Framework glib-base helper library"
 DESCRIPTION = "Telepathy Framework: GLib-based helper library for connection managers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 dbus hostpython-runtime-native dbus-native dbus-glib libxslt-native"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 SRC_URI = "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-glib/${BP}.tar.gz"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "cbeb0a24acc26e7f095be281c324da69"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb
index a8190a480..039cfc3a8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/telepathy/telepathy-idle_0.2.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Telepathy IRC connection manager"
 DESCRIPTION = "Telepathy implementation of the Internet Relay Chat protocols."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 dbus telepathy-glib openssl libxslt-native"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
                    file://src/idle.c;beginline=1;endline=19;md5=b06b1e2594423111a1a7910b0eefc7f9"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
index e81ec741a..735db1441 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/transmission/transmission_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client"
 SECTION = "network"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://transmissionbt.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=73f535ddffcf2a0d3af4f381f84f9b33"
 DEPENDS = "curl libevent gnutls openssl libtool intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/usbmuxd/usbmuxd_1.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/usbmuxd/usbmuxd_1.1.1.bb
index a74b15792..3f4f846f9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/usbmuxd/usbmuxd_1.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/usbmuxd/usbmuxd_1.1.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iPhone or iPod touch."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.GPLv2;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07 \
                    file://COPYING.GPLv3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb
index c41a1738c..99e3ccaca 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvdial_1.61.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.alumnit.ca/wiki/?WvDial"
 DESCRIPTION = "WvDial is a program that makes it easy to connect your Linux workstation to the Internet."
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
 inherit pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvstreams_4.6.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvstreams_4.6.1.bb
index 5ff8496b8..d73c64661 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvstreams_4.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/wvdial/wvstreams_4.6.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvStreams"
 SUMMARY = "WvStreams is a network programming library in C++"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
 DEPENDS = "zlib openssl (>= 0.9.8) dbus readline"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zabbix/zabbix_5.2.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zabbix/zabbix_5.2.6.bb
index b5ab15df4..66c80758c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zabbix/zabbix_5.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zabbix/zabbix_5.2.6.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ organisations with a few servers and for large companies with a \
 multitude of servers."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.zabbix.com/"
 SECTION = "Applications/Internet"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=300e938ad303147fede2294ed78fe02e"
 DEPENDS  = "libevent libpcre openldap virtual/libiconv zlib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb
index 72fd561dd..697bc4713 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.3.4.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "ZeroMQ looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.zeromq.org"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=d5311495d952062e0e4fbba39cbf3de1"
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "libsodium"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus-cxx/dbus-cxx_2.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus-cxx/dbus-cxx_2.1.0.bb
index 1524f096f..487681c92 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus-cxx/dbus-cxx_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus-cxx/dbus-cxx_2.1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "D-Bus wrapper in C++ for dbus"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://dbus-cxx.github.io/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/libsigcplusplus/libsigcplusplus/issues"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4cf0188f02184e1e84b9586ac53c3f83"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/dbus-cxx/dbus-cxx.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-daemon-proxy_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-daemon-proxy_git.bb
index f40b48836..d096cd618 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-daemon-proxy_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-daemon-proxy_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "dbus forwarding daemon"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://dbus-daemon-proxy.c;endline=19;md5=41df6d21fe1c97d6a1cc22a5bf374cba"
 DEPENDS = "dbus dbus-glib"
 SRCREV = "1226a0a1374628ff191f6d8a56000be5e53e7608"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/libdbus-c++_0.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/libdbus-c++_0.9.0.bb
index 999a0c006..8e8f544e8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/libdbus-c++_0.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/dbus/libdbus-c++_0.9.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "DBus-C++ Library"
 DESCRIPTION = "DBus-c++ attempts to provide a C++ API for D-BUS. The library has a glib and an Ecore mainloop integration. It also offers an optional own main loop."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dbus-cplusplus.sourceforge.net"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
 DEPENDS = "dbus expat glib-2.0 libpcre"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/emlog/emlog.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-core/emlog/emlog.inc
index 948e18da4..824787083 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/emlog/emlog.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/emlog/emlog.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "emlog is a Linux kernel module that makes it easy to access the \
 most recent (and only the most recent) output from a process"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/nicupavel/emlog.git;protocol=http;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm-2.68_2.70.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm-2.68_2.70.0.bb
index 357cf4f75..278cfd87b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm-2.68_2.70.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm-2.68_2.70.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the glib library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gtkmm.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=42dfffebc56fec7527aac53b7a89d1d8 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm_2.66.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm_2.66.2.bb
index 2097ce84f..f554a73fa 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm_2.66.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glibmm_2.66.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the glib library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gtkmm.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=42dfffebc56fec7527aac53b7a89d1d8 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libnfc/libnfc_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libnfc/libnfc_git.bb
index b8818c1f3..973374962 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libnfc/libnfc_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libnfc/libnfc_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY  = "Platform independent Near Field Communication (NFC) library"
 DESCRIPTION = "libnfc is a library which allows userspace application access \
 to NFC devices."
-LICENSE  = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE  = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b52f2d57d10c4f7ee67a7eb9615d5d24"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-2.0_2.10.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-2.0_2.10.7.bb
index 8736d44b7..84494b8ac 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-2.0_2.10.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-2.0_2.10.7.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library for loose coupling of C++ method calls"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 DEPENDS = "mm-common"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-3_3.2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-3_3.2.0.bb
index 3726dd0b2..9318a3054 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-3_3.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libsigc++-2.0/libsigc++-3_3.2.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library for loose coupling of C++ method calls"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=959bffe2993816eb32ec4bc1ec1d5875"
 DEPENDS = "mm-common"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++-5.0_5.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++-5.0_5.0.1.bb
index 9c3b3e9ad..c0f0b2e13 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++-5.0_5.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++-5.0_5.0.1.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "C++ wrapper for libxml library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml%2B%2B"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34 "
 SHRT_VER = "${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0]}.${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[1]}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++_2.42.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++_2.42.1.bb
index 6065333d9..f75568a1d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++_2.42.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/libxml/libxml++_2.42.1.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "C++ wrapper for libxml library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml%2B%2B"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34 "
 SHRT_VER = "${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0]}.${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[1]}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/mdbus2/mdbus2_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/mdbus2/mdbus2_git.bb
index b39784e24..07c5cc939 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/mdbus2/mdbus2_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/mdbus2/mdbus2_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Mickey's DBus Introspection and Interaction Utility V2"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07"
 DEPENDS = "readline"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/mm-common/mm-common_1.0.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/mm-common/mm-common_1.0.4.bb
index cee56fd55..33969ff7a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/mm-common/mm-common_1.0.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/mm-common/mm-common_1.0.4.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Common GNOME build files for C++ bindings"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/ndctl/ndctl_v69.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/ndctl/ndctl_v69.bb
index b848ca63c..5f119c6b7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/ndctl/ndctl_v69.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/ndctl/ndctl_v69.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The LIBNVDIMM subsystem provides support for three types of \
 NVDIMMs, namely,PMEM, BLK, and NVDIMM devices that can \
 simultaneously support both PMEM and BLK mode access."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm.git/tree/Documentation/nvdimm/nvdimm.txt?h=libnvdimm-for-next"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e66651809cac5da60c8b80e9e4e79e08"
 inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig bash-completion systemd
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/plymouth/plymouth_0.9.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/plymouth/plymouth_0.9.5.bb
index 7d76ab76f..143ffa10d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/plymouth/plymouth_0.9.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/plymouth/plymouth_0.9.5.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot proce
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/proxy-libintl/proxy-libintl_20100902.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/proxy-libintl/proxy-libintl_20100902.bb
index c230a2534..00b87bbd8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/proxy-libintl/proxy-libintl_20100902.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/proxy-libintl/proxy-libintl_20100902.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Proxy libintl"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/proxy-libintl/COPYING.LIB.txt;md5=bc400bc21422f9a92e76ec2c5167ca2e"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb
index 8b89a9841..6d72eb64b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-libsystemd_250.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "libsystemd static library built specifically as an integral compo
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.LGPL2.1;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 inherit meson pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-tools_1.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-tools_1.1.0.bb
index 1064b85b3..01f66c3f2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-tools_1.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++-tools_1.1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "sdbus-c++ native tools"
 DESCRIPTION = "Native interface code generator for development with sdbus-c++"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${S}/COPYING;md5=1803fa9c2c3ce8cb06b4861d75310742"
 inherit cmake
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++_1.0.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++_1.0.0.bb
index 79373f8e0..0e07868ba 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++_1.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/sdbus-c++/sdbus-c++_1.0.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "High-level C++ D-Bus library designed to provide easy-to-use yet
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1803fa9c2c3ce8cb06b4861d75310742"
 inherit cmake pkgconfig systemd ptest
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/toybox/toybox_0.8.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/toybox/toybox_0.8.5.bb
index 69ac8b58d..705f531f1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/toybox/toybox_0.8.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/toybox/toybox_0.8.5.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Toybox combines common utilities together into a single executable."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.landley.net/toybox/"
 DEPENDS = "attr virtual/crypt"
-LICENSE = "BSD-0-Clause"
+LICENSE = "0BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=78659a599b9325da368f2f1eb88f19c7"
 inherit cml1 update-alternatives
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/usleep/usleep_1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/usleep/usleep_1.0.bb
index 249a6ef54..a529032aa 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/usleep/usleep_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/usleep/usleep_1.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A user tool to support sleeping some number of microseconds"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libkcapi/libkcapi_1.3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libkcapi/libkcapi_1.3.1.bb
index 1bd587f0b..8ff5ddd17 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libkcapi/libkcapi_1.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libkcapi/libkcapi_1.3.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Linux Kernel Crypto API User Space Interface Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause | GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause | GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=80c467906eb826339c7f09e61808ed23"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libmcrypt/libmcrypt_2.5.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libmcrypt/libmcrypt_2.5.8.bb
index 0c5fc9319..50cdf229e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libmcrypt/libmcrypt_2.5.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/libmcrypt/libmcrypt_2.5.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Replacement for the old crypt() package and crypt(1) command, with extensions"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=bbb461211a33b134d42ed5ee802b37ff"
 DEPENDS = "libtool"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/pkcs11-helper/pkcs11-helper_1.28.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/pkcs11-helper/pkcs11-helper_1.28.bb
index ca78e5ef3..68ae94bdb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/pkcs11-helper/pkcs11-helper_1.28.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-crypto/pkcs11-helper/pkcs11-helper_1.28.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ slot, supporting session expiration and much more all using a simple API."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/OpenSC/pkcs11-helper"
 SECTION = "Development/Libraries"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-3-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=30f10d22cfb1ba98ccd714a41ad3311a \
    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=8a71d0475d08eee76d8b6d0c6dbec543 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/libdbi/libdbi.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/libdbi/libdbi.inc
index cea2838e3..0aba91b5d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/libdbi/libdbi.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/libdbi/libdbi.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Database Independent Abstraction Layer for C"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mariadb.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mariadb.inc
index 51e6ddbf7..a14c263d8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mariadb.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mariadb.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A robust, scalable, and reliable SQL server"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mariadb.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b1becf0cfa3366e0f4d854d1d264f311"
 SRC_URI = "https://archive.mariadb.org/${BP}/source/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mysql-python_1.2.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mysql-python_1.2.5.bb
index cd4658651..15f6b6fb9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mysql-python_1.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/mysql/mysql-python_1.2.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Python interface to MySQL"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/farcepest/MySQLdb1"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://GPL-2.0;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "mysql5"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/postgresql/postgresql.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/postgresql/postgresql.inc
index 257d27b11..00c010746 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/postgresql/postgresql.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/postgresql/postgresql.inc
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "\
    this package if you're installing the postgresql-server package. \
 "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.postgresql.com"
-LICENSE = "BSD-0-Clause"
+LICENSE = "0BSD"
 DEPENDS = "libnsl2 readline tzcode-native"
 ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/psqlodbc/psqlodbc_09.05.0300.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/psqlodbc/psqlodbc_09.05.0300.bb
index 6e1c8ab4a..b0fc35eb9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/psqlodbc/psqlodbc_09.05.0300.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/psqlodbc/psqlodbc_09.05.0300.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require ${PN}.inc
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://license.txt;md5=6db3822fc7512e83087ba798da013692"
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/odbc/versions/src/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/rocksdb/rocksdb_6.20.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/rocksdb/rocksdb_6.20.3.bb
index a5f6d8344..9e138d97e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/rocksdb/rocksdb_6.20.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-dbs/rocksdb/rocksdb_6.20.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "RocksDB an embeddable, persistent key-value store"
 DESCRIPTION = "RocksDB is library that provides an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rocksdb.org/"
-LICENSE = "(Apache-2.0 | GPL-2.0) & BSD-3-Clause"
+LICENSE = "(Apache-2.0 | GPL-2.0-only) & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.Apache;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57 \
                    file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                    file://LICENSE.leveldb;md5=fb04ff57a14f308f2eed4a9b87d45837"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_5.1.1.r37.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_5.1.1.r37.bb
index 1195b7d9a..56c87ad64 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_5.1.1.r37.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/android-tools/android-tools_5.1.1.r37.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Different utilities from Android"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & GPL-2.0 & BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & GPL-2.0-only & BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/Apache-2.0;md5=89aea4e17d99a7cacdbeed46a0096b10 \
    file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/autoconf-2.13/autoconf-2.13-native_2.13.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/autoconf-2.13/autoconf-2.13-native_2.13.bb
index fff0f5e3c..21d1356f7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/autoconf-2.13/autoconf-2.13-native_2.13.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/autoconf-2.13/autoconf-2.13-native_2.13.bb
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=361b6b837cad26c6900a926b62aada5f"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cgdb/cgdb_0.8.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cgdb/cgdb_0.8.0.bb
index 99e09bfc6..c5a003082 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cgdb/cgdb_0.8.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cgdb/cgdb_0.8.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "curses-based interface to GDB"
 DESCRIPTION = "cgdb is a lightweight curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cgdb.github.io/"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "flex-native readline ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.92.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.92.bb
index 2b9f29969..766d34f69 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.92.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cloc/cloc_1.92.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Count blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code \
 in many programming languages."
 AUTHOR = "Al Danial"
-LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE="GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2c1c00f9d3ed9e24fa69b932b7e7aff2"
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc/releases/download/v${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cpuid/cpuid_20211129.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cpuid/cpuid_20211129.bb
index d1f125092..3218ba652 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cpuid/cpuid_20211129.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/cpuid/cpuid_20211129.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from the CPUID instruction, and also determines the exact model of CPU(s). \
 It supports Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs, as well as older Transmeta, Cyrix, \
 UMC, NexGen, Rise, and SiS CPUs"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.etallen.com/cpuid.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.etallen.com/${BPN}/${BP}.src.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ctags/ctags_5.9.20211114.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ctags/ctags_5.9.20211114.0.bb
index cde7c7a0e..504cc2432 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ctags/ctags_5.9.20211114.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ctags/ctags_5.9.20211114.0.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Universal Ctags is a multilanguage reimplementation of the \
 HOMEPAGE = "https://ctags.io/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig manpages
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/dnf-plugin-tui/dnf-plugin-tui_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/dnf-plugin-tui/dnf-plugin-tui_git.bb
index ddb93a040..a82387a70 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/dnf-plugin-tui/dnf-plugin-tui_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/dnf-plugin-tui/dnf-plugin-tui_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A text-based user interface plugin of dnf for user to manage packages. "
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/doxygen/doxygen_1.9.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/doxygen/doxygen_1.9.3.bb
index 7070c1f2d..92fea981e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/doxygen/doxygen_1.9.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/doxygen/doxygen_1.9.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.doxygen.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.38.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.38.bb
index bb419c976..b6857917f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.38.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany-plugins_1.38.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A fast and lightweight IDE"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://plugins.geany.org/"
-LICENSE_DEFAULT = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE_DEFAULT = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE = "${LICENSE_DEFAULT} & BSD-2-Clause & GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "${LICENSE_DEFAULT} & BSD-2-Clause & GPL-3.0-only"
 python () {
    for plugin in d.getVar('PLUGINS').split():
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ FILES:${PN}-codenav = "${libdir}/geany/codenav.so"
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-commander"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM += "file://commander/COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
-LICENSE:${PN}-commander = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE:${PN}-commander = "GPL-3.0-only"
 FILES:${PN}-commander = "${libdir}/geany/commander.so"
 # | checking whether the GTK version in use is compatible with plugin Debugger... no
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ FILES:${PN}-geanyctags = "${libdir}/geany/geanyctags.so"
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-geanydoc"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM += "file://geanydoc/COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
-LICENSE:${PN}-geanydoc = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE:${PN}-geanydoc = "GPL-3.0-only"
 FILES:${PN}-geanydoc = "${libdir}/geany/geanydoc.so"
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-geanyextrasel"
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ FILES:${PN}-geanypg = "${libdir}/geany/geanypg.so"
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-geanyprj"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM += "file://geanyprj/COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
-LICENSE:${PN}-geanyprj = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE:${PN}-geanyprj = "GPL-3.0-only"
 FILES:${PN}-geanyprj = "${libdir}/geany/geanyprj.so"
 #PLUGINS += "${PN}-geanypy"
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ FILES:${PN}-geniuspaste = "${libdir}/geany/geniuspaste.so ${datadir}/${PN}/geniu
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-git-changebar"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM += "file://git-changebar/COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
-LICENSE:${PN}-git-changebar = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE:${PN}-git-changebar = "GPL-3.0-only"
 FILES:${PN}-git-changebar = "${datadir}/${BPN}/git-changebar ${libdir}/geany/git-changebar.so"
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-keyrecord"
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM += "file://pairtaghighlighter/COPYING;md5=d6d927525a612b3a8dbeb
 FILES:${PN}-pairtaghighlighter = "${libdir}/geany/pairtaghighlighter.so"
 PLUGINS += "${PN}-pohelper"
-LICENSE:${PN}-pohelper = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE:${PN}-pohelper = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM += "file://pohelper/COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 FILES:${PN}-pohelper = "${datadir}/${BPN}/pohelper ${libdir}/geany/pohelper.so"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany_1.38.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany_1.38.bb
index 33d0870eb..d75e3b57f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany_1.38.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/geany/geany_1.38.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A fast and lightweight IDE"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.geany.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bd7b2c994af21d318bd2cd3b3f80c2d5"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+3 libxml-parser-perl-native python3-docutils-native intltool-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/glade/glade_3.22.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/glade/glade_3.22.2.bb
index 641777110..c7f98fac9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/glade/glade_3.22.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/glade/glade_3.22.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Glade - A User Interface Designer"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=aabe87591cb8ae0f3c68be6977bb5522 \
                    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=9ac2e7cff1ddaf48b6eab6028f23ef88 \
                    file://COPYING.LGPL;md5=252890d9eee26aab7b432e8b8a616475"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/grpc/grpc_1.41.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/grpc/grpc_1.41.1.bb
index 925907e17..3fe799310 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/grpc/grpc_1.41.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/grpc/grpc_1.41.1.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Provides gRPC libraries for multiple languages written on top of shared C core l
 (C++, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/grpc/grpc"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57"
 DEPENDS = "c-ares protobuf protobuf-native protobuf-c protobuf-c-native openssl libnsl2 abseil-cpp re2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb
index 3c3f069df..c519fa02a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/guider/guider_3.9.8.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/iipeace/guider"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/iipeace/guider/issues"
 AUTHOR = "Peace Lee <ipeace5@gmail.com>"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2c1c00f9d3ed9e24fa69b932b7e7aff2"
 PV = "3.9.8+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/heaptrack/heaptrack_1.2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/heaptrack/heaptrack_1.2.0.bb
index fad42e399..29937e26d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/heaptrack/heaptrack_1.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/heaptrack/heaptrack_1.2.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ events with stack traces. Dedicated analysis tools then allow you to interpret \
 the heap memory profile to find hotspots to reduce memory, leaks, allocation \
 hotspots and temporary allocations"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://phabricator.kde.org/source/heaptrack/"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "zlib boost libunwind elfutils"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/icon-slicer/icon-slicer_0.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/icon-slicer/icon-slicer_0.3.bb
index 9768a6e71..8e7b0ba5a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/icon-slicer/icon-slicer_0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/icon-slicer/icon-slicer_0.3.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "gdk-pixbuf popt"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb
index 27a0f4441..0f6bbb4d5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ built-in raw socket interface of the Linux kernel, so it can be used \
 on a wide variety of supported network cards."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/iptraf-ng/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e2b3850593b899b1a17594ed4cc4c731"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-frontends_4.11.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-frontends_4.11.0.1.bb
index 53e49f57b..169500f6b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-frontends_4.11.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/kconfig-frontends/kconfig-frontends_4.11.0.1.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ kconfig infrastructure, ready for use by third-party projects. \
 The kconfig-frontends package provides the kconfig parser, as well as all \
 the frontends"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.com/ymorin/kconfig-frontends"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9b8cf60ff39767ff04b671fca8302408"
 SECTION = "devel"
 DEPENDS += "ncurses flex-native gperf-native bison-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libgee/libgee_0.20.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libgee/libgee_0.20.5.bb
index c0d7ea348..adf73d491 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libgee/libgee_0.20.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libgee/libgee_0.20.5.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
 PE = "1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libsombok3/libsombok3_2.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libsombok3/libsombok3_2.4.0.bb
index 2dc3776e8..2a1234c57 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libsombok3/libsombok3_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libsombok3/libsombok3_2.4.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Unicode Standard Annex #14 (UAX #14).  East_Asian_Width informative \
 properties defined by Annex #11 (UAX #11) may be concerned to determin \
 breaking positions.  This package also implements "default" Grapheme \
 Cluster segmentation described in Annex #29 (UAX #29)."
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPLv1+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5b122a36d0f6dc55279a0ebc69f3c60b"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/hatukanezumi/sombok.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libubox/libubox_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libubox/libubox_git.bb
index 872bdb63a..b2898c9c7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libubox/libubox_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/libubox/libubox_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "C utility functions for OpenWrt"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
    file://avl.c;endline=39;md5=00810155fed3d604816ec5814523d60a \
    file://avl-cmp.c;endline=15;md5=1603e6094b432a5f3f320877a06f41b5 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/lshw/lshw_02.19.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/lshw/lshw_02.19.2.bb
index a26fac992..8b3608a24 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/lshw/lshw_02.19.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/lshw/lshw_02.19.2.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Hardware lister"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter"
 SECTION = "console/tools"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(i.86|x86_64|arm|aarch64).*-linux"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ltrace/ltrace_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ltrace/ltrace_git.bb
index b6fb1dcdd..ad5842871 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ltrace/ltrace_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ltrace/ltrace_git.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ It can also intercept and print the system calls executed by the program.\
 "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://ltrace.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 PE = "1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb
index 1deb25ab9..7e0ff54dc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/memstat/memstat_1.0.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ is used and which 'old' libs are loaded. \
 HOMEPAGE = "http://memstattool.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "devtool"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/memstattool"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/mercurial/mercurial_5.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/mercurial/mercurial_5.5.bb
index ae978aea9..804943410 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/mercurial/mercurial_5.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/mercurial/mercurial_5.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "The Mercurial distributed SCM"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mercurial.selenic.com/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "python3 python3-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msr-tools/msr-tools_1.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msr-tools/msr-tools_1.3.bb
index e4701afa8..05220c249 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msr-tools/msr-tools_1.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/msr-tools/msr-tools_1.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "utilies to read and write Intel model-specific registers"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://01.org/msr-tools"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Makefile;beginline=1;endline=11;md5=678a3928c856042424c734f4a7586e65"
 SECTION = "devel"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/octave/octave_4.4.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/octave/octave_4.4.1.bb
index 055607134..433175fb6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/octave/octave_4.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/octave/octave_4.4.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "High-level language, primarily intended for numerical computation
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/"
 SECTION = "math"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 DEPENDS = "gperf-native texinfo lapack pcre readline"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/openocd/openocd_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/openocd/openocd_git.bb
index 1b06f29c1..1503bb675 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/openocd/openocd_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/openocd/openocd_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Free and Open On-Chip Debugging, In-System Programming and Boundary-Scan Testing"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "libusb-compat libftdi"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "libusb1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pahole/pahole_1.22.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pahole/pahole_1.22.bb
index c5c5e8325..449508a5d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pahole/pahole_1.22.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pahole/pahole_1.22.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Shows and manipulates data structure layout"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 DEPENDS = "elfutils zlib libbpf"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pax-utils/pax-utils_1.2.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pax-utils/pax-utils_1.2.2.bb
index 6cd4aa75e..0eb214626 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pax-utils/pax-utils_1.2.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pax-utils/pax-utils_1.2.2.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ utilities for ELF binaries. It can check ELF binary files and running \
 processes for issues that might be relevant when using ELF binaries \
 along with PaX, such as non-PIC code or executable stack and heap."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/pax-utils.xml"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 SRC_URI = "https://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/dist/pax-utils-${PV}.tar.xz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pcimem/pcimem_2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pcimem/pcimem_2.0.bb
index 6f4004f97..85c4fa95a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pcimem/pcimem_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pcimem/pcimem_2.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Simple program to read & write to a pci device from userspace"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/billfarrow/pcimem"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/billfarrow/pcimem/issues"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = "(x86_64|aarch64|arm|riscv64)"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/ipc-run_20200505.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/ipc-run_20200505.0.bb
index bab1827ff..34f3136de 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/ipc-run_20200505.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/ipc-run_20200505.0.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ usages are supported and may be mixed. Likewise, functional and OO API \
 styles are both supported and may be mixed."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://metacpan.org/release/IPC-Run"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=0ebd37caf53781e8b7223e6b99b63f4e"
 DEPENDS = "perl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbd-mysql-perl_4.050.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbd-mysql-perl_4.050.bb
index 760c0ad0a..fc505fe1e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbd-mysql-perl_4.050.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbd-mysql-perl_4.050.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ functions are missing, mainly because no-one ever requested them. \
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 DEPENDS += "libdev-checklib-perl-native libdbi-perl-native libmysqlclient"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d0a06964340e5c0cde88b7af611f755c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbi-perl_1.643.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbi-perl_1.643.bb
index b21418298..94f98fe40 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbi-perl_1.643.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdbi-perl_1.643.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ database interface independent of the actual database being used. \
 "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=10982c7148e0a012c0fd80534522f5c5"
 SRC_URI = "http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdev-checklib-perl_1.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdev-checklib-perl_1.14.bb
index a96e3adc7..6dfff781b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdev-checklib-perl_1.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libdev-checklib-perl_1.14.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ and its headers are available, by attempting to compile a simple program and \
 link against it."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::CheckLib"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;md5=7911cdbb572d25c5f2e2ea17f669efc2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libio-pty-perl_1.16.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libio-pty-perl_1.16.bb
index 4d0422ecf..e71485185 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libio-pty-perl_1.16.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libio-pty-perl_1.16.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Perl module for pseudo tty IO"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://META.yml;beginline=11;endline=12;md5=b2562f94907eeb42e8ce9d45f628e587"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-Tty-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libjson-perl_4.03000.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libjson-perl_4.03000.bb
index ea1c1d592..88d0d26d0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libjson-perl_4.03000.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libjson-perl_4.03000.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The module implements JSON encode/decode."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=1171;endline=1176;md5=3be2cb8159d094768e67386c453e8bbe"
 DEPENDS += "perl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb
index 27a7f9da7..d7959df66 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libparse-yapp-perl_1.21.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ with perl object oriented interface."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-Yapp/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://lib/Parse/Yapp.pm;beginline=508;endline=521;md5=41a4542fcde97a600c9de0d782a90256"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libperlio-gzip-perl_0.20.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libperlio-gzip-perl_0.20.bb
index ccd86829b..11f6a1ad1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libperlio-gzip-perl_0.20.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/perl/libperlio-gzip-perl_0.20.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The module implements perlio layer for gzip."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://metacpan.org/pod/PerlIO::gzip"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=55;endline=61;md5=bc3da2dec1fbea59ac91172c5e0eb837"
 DEPENDS += "perl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ply/ply_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ply/ply_git.bb
index 616f5dd7e..84a79c13e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ply/ply_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/ply/ply_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Ply: A light-weight dynamic tracer for eBPF"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/iovisor/ply"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS += "bison-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pmtools/pmtools_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pmtools/pmtools_git.bb
index afa503ee4..56d895a09 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pmtools/pmtools_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/pmtools/pmtools_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "This is a small collection of power management \
    test and investigation tools"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://lesswatts.org/projects/acpi"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 PV = "20130209+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/poke/poke_1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/poke/poke_1.2.bb
index b99d7b5ef..af85d2170 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/poke/poke_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/poke/poke_1.2.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "GNU poke is an extensible editor for structured binary data"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://pokology.org"
 DESCRIPTION = "GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them."
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/poke/poke-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-apt_2.3.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-apt_2.3.0.bb
index 183836f40..e17e773cb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-apt_2.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-apt_2.3.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Python-apt is a wrapper to use features of apt from python."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & FSFAP"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & FSFAP"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.GPL;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3 \
                    file://debian/copyright;md5=4ed7b6862ca422678b17e7d4ed592285"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-distutils-extra_2.39.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-distutils-extra_2.39.bb
index 8aca4ca3a..e129c18d6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-distutils-extra_2.39.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-distutils-extra_2.39.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "python-distutils extension"
 DESCRIPTION = "python-distutils extension integrating gettext support, themed icons and scrollkeeper based documentation"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=4325afd396febcb659c36b49533135d4"
 SRC_URI = "https://launchpad.net/python-distutils-extra/trunk/${PV}/+download/python-distutils-extra-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pycups_2.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pycups_2.0.1.bb
index 3866e60a1..a7bc16716 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pycups_2.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pycups_2.0.1.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "pycups - CUPS bindings for Python"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/OpenPrinting/pycups"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS += "cups"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/serialcheck/serialcheck_1.0.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/serialcheck/serialcheck_1.0.0.bb
index 797ec0e7b..29abfe1af 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/serialcheck/serialcheck_1.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/serialcheck/serialcheck_1.0.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Application to verify operation of serial ports"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/nsekhar/serialcheck"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/sip/sip3_4.19.23.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/sip/sip3_4.19.23.bb
index 792cdb537..d6335585e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/sip/sip3_4.19.23.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/sip/sip3_4.19.23.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "SIP is a C++/Python Wrapper Generator"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE-GPL2;md5=e91355d8a6f8bd8f7c699d62863c7303"
 SRC_URI = "https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/sip/${PV}/sip-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-tools-ng_1.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-tools-ng_1.0.2.bb
index 08b1ecbb3..580c53a32 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-tools-ng_1.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-tools-ng_1.0.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "New set of tools for working with SquashFS images"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0+ & LGPL-3.0+ & MIT & BSD-2-Clause & Zlib"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later & LGPL-3.0-or-later & MIT & BSD-2-Clause & Zlib"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.md;md5=c0de2c0aca56349dab98e97992316f7e \
                    file://licenses/GPLv3.txt;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464 \
                    file://licenses/hash_table.txt;md5=874823605326caeaabaa95bfbd0f9fb0 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb
index c03cf2f11..38e34b93c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/suitesparse/suitesparse_5.10.1.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv3 & BSD-3-Clause & LGPL-2.0 & Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-3.0-only & BSD-3-Clause & LGPL-2.0-only & Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=5fa987762101f748a6cdd951b64ffc6b"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse;protocol=https;branch=master \
           file://0001-Preserve-CXXFLAGS-from-environment-in-Mongoose.patch \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tk_8.6.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tk_8.6.10.bb
index 6e951c993..efab9618e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tk_8.6.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tk_8.6.10.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://tcl.sourceforge.net"
 SECTION = "devel/tcltk"
 # http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/license.html
-LICENSE = "tcl"
+LICENSE = "TCL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${S}/../license.terms;md5=c88f99decec11afa967ad33d314f87fe \
    file://${S}/../compat/license.terms;md5=c88f99decec11afa967ad33d314f87fe \
    file://${S}/../doc/license.terms;md5=c88f99decec11afa967ad33d314f87fe \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/uftrace/uftrace_0.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/uftrace/uftrace_0.11.bb
index 59c9dd4cb..6d7696c06 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/uftrace/uftrace_0.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/uftrace/uftrace_0.11.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Trace and analyze execution of a program written in C/C++"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/namhyung/uftrace"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/namhyung/uftrace/issues"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "elfutils"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb
index 75cf21590..ec62f3187 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ patterns with given frequencies, durations, and spacing."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep/issues"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/spkr-beep/beep.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb
index f473ccaf5..713492b44 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ kernel developers and device drivers developers."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise/releases/download/v${PV}/bitwise-v${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb
index 114e39463..63c32dbf0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ global warming, discover sources of gravitational waves, and many other types \
 of scientific and mathematical research."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6"
 SECTION = "applications"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb
index 05d3a1e23..1566f8a88 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://cfengine.com"
 SKIP_RECIPE[cfengine] ?= "Needs porting to openssl 3.x"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=233aa25e53983237cf0bd4c238af255f"
 DEPENDS = "attr tokyocabinet bison-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb
index 39cdaea1a..a743e7252 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Terminal based 'The Matrix' screen implementation"
 AUTHOR = "Abishek V Ashok"
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix.git;branch=stable;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb
index 1c613b097..dd97796f4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Collects and summarises system performance statistics"
 DESCRIPTION = "collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & MIT"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1bd21f19f7f0c61a7be8ecacb0e28854"
 DEPENDS = "rrdtool curl libpcap libxml2 yajl libgcrypt libtool lvm2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb
index 165e7040f..a31911b97 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data \
    trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html"
 SECTION = "console"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=76d6e300ffd8fb9d18bd9b136a9bba13 \
                    file://main_common.cc;beginline=5;endline=16;md5=ad099df052bdd8297f490712285069da \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb
index 2bfa575d7..0b1e7e608 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ script (or any scripting language)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343"
 SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/${BPN}/${BP}.tgz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb
index f07d4c406..014c77358 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ logging facility providing: \
 - the DLT test applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.genivi.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "MPLv2"
+LICENSE = "MPL-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=8184208060df880fe3137b93eb88aeea"
 DEPENDS = "zlib gzip-native json-c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb
index aa08216eb..3f00621f7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ customizing printouts."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/enscript/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb
index ba436c277..3e4edae9d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "haveged - A simple entropy daemon"
 DESCRIPTION = "The haveged project is an attempt to provide an easy-to-use, unpredictable random number generator based upon an adaptation of the HAVEGE algorithm. Haveged was created to remedy low-entropy conditions in the Linux random device that can occur under some workloads, especially on headless servers."
 AUTHOR = "Gary Wuertz"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/index.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 # v1.9.14
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb
index 658392374..e99659313 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb
index 0f314288c..ac845ffcf 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "HP Linux Imaging and Printing"
-LICENSE="GPLv2"
+LICENSE="GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=20f2c819499cc2063e9a7b07b408815c"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb
index e8e157658..dac025de7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Ice Window Manager (IceWM)"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4a26952467ef79a7efca4a9cf52d417b"
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ice-wm/${BPN}/releases/download/${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.lz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
index 80f599b31..1a7d61abc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ to a different one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle \
 incorrect C syntax. \
 Install the indent package if you are developing applications in C and \
 you want a program to format your code."
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/gettext"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb
index 3933355ab..84ed3b052 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "inputattach configuration file"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 SRC_URI = "file://inputattach.conf"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb
index fd4e31f3b..8eebd691a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A top utility for I/O"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=48e7be78bd2671d08c9c3bad71f1cfaa"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb
index b0042b658..4f8ea64a2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Tools for taking the MD5 sum of ISO images"
 DEPENDS = "popt python3 openssl curl popt-native"
 RDEPENDS:${BPN} = "openssl curl"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rhinstaller/isomd5sum.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb
index caa13958d..d00327996 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A handy serial sniffer"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=892f569a555ba9c07a568a7c0c4fa63a"
 PV = "2.3.6+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb
index b9c3bbb40..3e6df5689 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ block devices. It has a plugin-based architecture where each technology (like \
 LVM, Btrfs, MD RAID, Swap,...) is implemented in a separate plugin, possibly \
 with multiple implementations (e.g. using LVM CLI or the new LVM DBus API)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rhinstaller.github.io/libblockdev/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c07cb499d259452f324bb90c3067d85c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb
index 2036c53ef..cd586897a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "USB CEC Adaptor communication Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b3a719e97f49e4841e90573f9b1a98ac"
 DEPENDS = "p8platform udev ncurses swig-native python3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb
index 2369f038b..638256992 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig/issues"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fad9b3332be894bab9bc501572864b29"
 SRC_URI = "https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/dist/libconfig-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb
index 7ca2a5f2c..2f67b12a8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.divesoftware.org/libdc/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=243b725d71bb5df4a1e5920b344b86ad"
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb
index 8a2886b8c..80ab73040 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://bitbucket.org/tagoh/libgxim/downloads/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4bb1fa63d00eb224439d413591c29a6a"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "75e20d1744139644f9951b78ea3910b162d3380302315cb4b3d0640f23694c79"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
 file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb
index addc57e41..0dea4aff5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Internationalized Domain Name support library"
 DESCRIPTION = "Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "(LGPLv2.1+ | LGPLv3) & GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "(LGPL-2.1-or-later | LGPL-3.0-only) & GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=df4be47940a91ee69556f5f71eed4aec \
                    file://COPYING.LESSERv2;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                    file://COPYING.LESSERv3;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "14b67108344d81ba844631640df77c9071d9fb0659b080326ff5424e86
 PACKAGES =+ "idn"
 FILES:idn = "${bindir}/*"
-LICENSE:${PN} = "LGPLv2.1+ | LGPLv3"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "LGPL-2.1-or-later | LGPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:idn = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE:idn = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-csharp"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb
index a7d2922dd..db4f507b7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library to handle Apple Property List format whereas it's binary or XML"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07 \
                    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6ab17b41640564434dda85c06b7124f7"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb
index 171e55586..a586f49f9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iPhone or iPod touch."
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6ab17b41640564434dda85c06b7124f7"
 DEPENDS = "udev libusb1 libplist"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb
index 60aa07b8b..a83a11c68 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "libleak detects memory leak by hooking memory functions (e.g. malloc) by LD_PRELOAD"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/WuBingzheng/libleak"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.md;beginline=18;endline=21;md5=de4f705f12cdedbe452b2c3524572b03"
 DEPENDS += "libbacktrace"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb
index bbfee1ff7..1d650ac63 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "A cross-platform, lightweight Modbus RTU library"
 DESCRIPTION = "liblightmodbus is a very lightweight, highly configurable, \
               platform-independent Modbus RTU library."
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=84dcc94da3adb52b53ae4fa38fe49e5d"
 inherit cmake pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb
index 880770f34..bac3a2c0b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "File locking library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.qa.debian.org/libl/liblockfile.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=f4ba6ad04fcb05cc30a4cfa5062c55a3"
 SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/libl/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.orig.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc
index dc8abb91f..5a6cda6ca 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Briefly described, liblognorm is a tool to normalize log data."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.liblognorm.com"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.liblognorm.com/files/download/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz\
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc
index b502177aa..0857cc455 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ QNX and Windows."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libmodbus.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRC_URI = "http://libmodbus.org/releases/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb
index ec427a9a7..f892cc650 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Library for password quality checking and generating random passwords"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6bd2f1386df813a459a0c34fde676fc2"
 SRCNAME = "libpwquality"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb
index 48a7d086b..eb818e565 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ It provides high performance logging, tracing, ipc, and poll."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/clusterlabs/libqb/wiki"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=321bf41f280cf805086dd5a720b37785"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb
index 631860a90..d917a3247 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Libraries providing API for reporting different problems in appli
 to different bug targets like Bugzilla, ftp, trac, etc..."
 SUMMARY = "Generic library for reporting various problems"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://abrt.readthedocs.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 DEPENDS = "xmlrpc-c xmlrpc-c-native intltool-native \
        json-c libtar libnewt libproxy rpm \
        augeas satyr systemd \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb
index 192d4bce6..4190338c1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libserialport is a minimal, cross-platform shared library written in C that is intended to take care of the OS-specific details when writing software that uses serial ports."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sigrok.org/wiki/Libserialport"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
 inherit autotools
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb
index 61f159c57..7498a5704 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Utilities to collect and visualise system statistics"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb
index c93c8b0be..e22b25a16 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Libuio - helper library for UIO subsystem"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.code.sf.net/p/libuio/code;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
index 792d69624..955dd5154 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Library for converting WMF files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 PR = "r3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb
index 504176d63..b706f634e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ input subsystem (providing support for serial mice, touchscreens etc.), and test
 the input event layer."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb
index df88afa31..d7ba6e14b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lockfile-progs provide a method to lock and unlock mailboxes and files \
 safely (via liblockfile)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lockfile-progs.html"
 SECTION = "Applications/System"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 DEPENDS = "liblockfile"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb
index 53d4f463b..73e4eac3d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "An Enhanced Printer Spooler"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 | Artistic-1.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only | Artistic-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c6570d8d699af1883db9d0e733ac9bfb"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
index cc31323c3..3cbe785a5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "md5deep and hashdeep to compute and audit hashsets of amounts of file
 DESCRIPTION = "md5deep is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files. This package also includes hashdeep which is also able to audit hashsets."
 AUTHOR = "Jesse Kornblum, Simson L. Garfinkel"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://md5deep.sourceforge.net"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9190f660105b9a56cdb272309bfd5491"
 PV = "4.4+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb
index 24271eb2b..df43d25ac 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Set of CLI tools for Openlmi providers"
 DESCRIPTION = "openlmi-tools is a set of command line tools for Openlmi providers."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.openlmi.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING;md5=75859989545e37968a99b631ef42722e"
 SECTION = "System/Management"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb
index d2d5dc0aa..cf149aef9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ tools that combines a \"git-like\" model for committing and downloading \
 bootable filesystem trees, along with a layer for deploying them and managing \
 the bootloader configuration."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://ostree.readthedocs.io"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5f30f0716dfdd0d91eb439ebec522ec2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
index a5e9539e9..04923116c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "7-zip is a commandline utility handling 7z archives."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.7-zip.org/"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+ & unRAR"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & unRAR"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://DOC/copying.txt;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                    file://DOC/unRarLicense.txt;md5=9c87ddde469ef94aed153b0951d088de \
                    file://DOC/License.txt;md5=879598edf1f54dddb6930d7581357f8b"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb
index eca7d874b..8a0699057 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Platform support library used by libCEC and binary add-ons for Kodi"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/os.h;md5=752555fa94e82005d45fd201fee5bd33"
 PV = "2.1.0.1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb
index dc7b84986..7dd48b3b4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "PAM cached credentials module"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "libpam openssl db"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb
index 2db8b1816..f7cf4a03f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "pam-ssh-agent-auth"
 DESCRIPTION = "A PAM module which permits authentication via ssh-agent."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamsshagentauth/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "openssl & BSD"
+LICENSE = "OpenSSL & BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.OpenSSL;md5=8ab01146141ded59b75f8ba7811ed05a \
                    file://OPENSSH_LICENSE;md5=7ae09218173be1643c998a4b71027f9b \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb
index 035fe9f65..7768d1741 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ are nonetheless useful and familiar to a large audience of end-users."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-FnMatch/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=34;endline=37;md5=54fdfac62963b7cece5583ab38f2cf0d"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb
index d76361732..b5f77700c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "PolicyKit Authorization Framework"
 DESCRIPTION = "The polkit package is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=155db86cdbafa7532b41f390409283eb \
                    file://src/polkit/polkit.h;beginline=1;endline=20;md5=0a8630b0133176d0504c87a0ded39db4"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb
index d7e59e963..88a18aa13 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A very simple convenience library for handling properties and signals in C++11."
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
 PV = "0.0.1+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb
index 214768fe5..7359c1254 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://0001-rarpd.8-add-man-file.patch \
    file://rarpd.service \
 "
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://rarpd.c;md5=199b20b172ea93121bc613a9c77b6931"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb
index bb72316cf..122b0707c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "High performance data logging and graphing system for time series data"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=39df84cfd8a5e18bf988f277f7946676"
 DEPENDS = "libpng zlib cairo pango glib-2.0 libxml2 groff-native python3-setuptools-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb
index 6a1f88093..acdbbb7d1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A reliable logging library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/rsyslog/librelp"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1fb9c10ed9fd6826757615455ca893a9"
 DEPENDS = "gmp nettle libidn zlib gnutls openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb
index b9c4e60cb..ebb8ecf9b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL,\
 DEPENDS = "zlib libestr libfastjson bison-native flex-native liblogging"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.rsyslog.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv3 & Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only & Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=51d9635e646fb75e1b74c074f788e973 \
                    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=cb7903f1e5c39ae838209e130dca270a \
                    file://COPYING.ASL20;md5=052f8a09206615ab07326ff8ce2d9d32\
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb
index 4bfd67e27..d8cb24cab 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ lease algorithms: delta leases and paxos leases."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://pagure.io/sanlock"
 SECTION = "utils"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2 & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.license;md5=60487bf0bf429d6b5aa72b6d37a0eb22"
 PV .= "+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb
index e4323ec83..a377d4ec5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ to the Trusted Computing Group OPAL 2.0 SSC specification."
 SUMMARY = "The Drive Trust Alliance Self Encrypting Drive Utility"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Common/LICENSE.txt;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb
index 0628c1d58..fe2ebe4ff 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9bf8c42acaa247efd9321bdb1fc2390022f0c554d77fbbd4a7363d990f
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE_GPL;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 do_compile:prepend() {
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb
index 5a5b357f0..1e5ffdd85 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libsigrok is a shared library written in C, which provides the basic hardware access drivers for logic analyzers and other supported devices, as well as input/output file format support."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libzip"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb
index 86b894090..24091bcf9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libsigrokdecode is a shared library written in C, which provides (streaming) protocol decoding functionality."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 python3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb
index 2f0aa8cc0..48f96cc43 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "sigrok-cli is a command-line frontend for sigrok."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "libsigrok"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb
index 233d5b857..28f0ce8cd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/smartmontools/smartmontools-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb
index 0e53cfa8d..993efab39 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=72d977d697c3c05830fdff00a7448931"
 SRCREV = "beb4650660179963a8ed5b5cbf2085cc1b34f608"
 PV = "1.0+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb
index 45978bb2c..07b80a530 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Linux CAN network development utilities"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-3-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://include/linux/can.h;endline=44;md5=a9e1169c6c9a114a61329e99f86fdd31"
 DEPENDS = "libsocketcan"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb
index 59114b027..ab4710e81 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "canutils (PTX flavour)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pengutronix.de"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "libsocketcan"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb
index 27380ee19..9f6ef85c8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Control basic functions in socketcan from userspace"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pengutronix.de"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/libsocketcan.c;beginline=3;endline=17;md5=97e38adced4385d8fba1ae2437cedee1"
 SRCREV = "077def398ad303043d73339112968e5112d8d7c8"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb
index 340a12496..3916bbd60 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture \
 system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, \
 filter and analyze."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.sysdig.org/"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & (MIT | GPL-2.0)"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & (MIT | GPL-2.0-only)"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f8fee3d59797546cffab04f3b88b2d44"
 inherit cmake pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb
index 271fe7a28..fc64ec0fc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Transparent Inter-Process Communication protocol"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://tipclog/tipc.h;endline=35;md5=985b6ea8735818511d276c1b466cce98"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.code.sf.net/p/tipc/tipcutils;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb
index 13aa92e11..8dca2940b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Hardware performance monitoring counters"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://team.inria.fr/pacap/software/tiptop/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses libxml2 bison-native flex-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb
index c8d585729..3a3dd192b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A lightweight hotkey daemon"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/wertarbyte/triggerhappy"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 # matches debian/0.5.0-1 tag
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb
index 3e8d87f9a..b3db508cc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 SUMMARY = "Utilities for User-Mode-Linux"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = "zlib ncurses readline"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/user-mode-linux/tools/1/uml_utilities_${PV}.tar.bz2 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb
index 3c17d7a3c..a37404193 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Sometimes a malicious local user could cause more problems \
  "
 SECTION = "utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a17cb0a873d252440acfdf9b3d0e7fbf"
 SRC_URI = "${GENTOO_MIRROR}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb
index ef1ae2c0b..faf8dd362 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "The volume_key project provides a libvolume_key, a library for manipulating \
 storage volume encryption keys and storing them separately from volumes, and an \
 associated command-line tool, named volume_key."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://pagure.io/volume_key"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb
index 3ccc5afd5..ad32cb0e7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ including Linux 2. * , (Open, Net, Free)BSD, aix 4.1, SunOS \
 packages are available on most Linux distributions. \
 Under Debian, the package name is wipe"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://lambda-diode.com/software/wipe/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://GPL;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/berke/wipe.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb
index 1a77665e9..0fda3e675 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Zlog is a pure C logging library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/HardySimpson/zlog"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRCREV = "876099f3c66033f3de11d79f63814766b1021dbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm-2.36_2.36.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm-2.36_2.36.1.bb
index 40487520f..9a5b1a1b8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm-2.36_2.36.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm-2.36_2.36.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the atk"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm_2.28.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm_2.28.2.bb
index b305fe573..1f9c28e53 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm_2.28.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/atk/atkmm_2.28.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the atk"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb
index 68f52bf92..321e7c36a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A GObject library to create cabinet files"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcab"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.7.bb
index d89613d74..2677f5c61 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gmime/gmime_3.2.7.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
 DESCRIPTION = "Runtime libraries for parsing and creating MIME mail"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb
index 634b60940..86a941f4a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-common/gnome-common_3.18.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Common macros for building GNOME applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnome.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-doc-utils-stub/gnome-doc-utils-stub_1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-doc-utils-stub/gnome-doc-utils-stub_1.0.bb
index ec258ae98..db55f2239 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-doc-utils-stub/gnome-doc-utils-stub_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-doc-utils-stub/gnome-doc-utils-stub_1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Stub implementation of gnome-doc-utils"
 DESCRIPTION = "This recipe provides m4 macros from gnome-doc-utils project, so \
 that dependent recipes can build. Gnome-doc-utils itself is no longer packaged because \
 it requires libxml2 and python 2 at the same time, which can no longer be satisfied. "
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6 \
                    file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1-only;md5=1a6d268fd218675ffea8be556788b780"
 SRC_URI = "file://gnome-doc-utils.m4"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-themes/gnome-themes-extra_3.28.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-themes/gnome-themes-extra_3.28.bb
index bba972006..d7e422cc9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-themes/gnome-themes-extra_3.28.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gnome-themes/gnome-themes-extra_3.28.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-themes-standard/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/gnome"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 inherit gnomebase gettext gtk-icon-cache upstream-version-is-even features_check
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc
index 124e3db9b..f2af7c920 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtk+.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off project
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gtk.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & LGPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm3_3.24.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm3_3.24.5.bb
index a8c771364..46c335860 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm3_3.24.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm3_3.24.5.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the GTK+ toolkit V3"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gtkmm.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm_2.24.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm_2.24.5.bb
index a9bb3387b..54e75a20d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm_2.24.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gtk+/gtkmm_2.24.5.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the GTK+ toolkit"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gtkmm.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libjcat/libjcat_0.1.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libjcat/libjcat_0.1.10.bb
index bbbc728d3..7422e2887 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libjcat/libjcat_0.1.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libjcat/libjcat_0.1.10.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for reading and writing Jcat files"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1803fa9c2c3ce8cb06b4861d75310742"
 DEPENDS = "\
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.30.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.30.0.bb
index d2e01833d..0ef733ce9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.30.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libpeas/libpeas_1.30.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "libpeas is a gobject-based plugins engine"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libpeas"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4b54a1fd55a448865a0b32d41598759d"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libxmlb/libxmlb_0.3.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libxmlb/libxmlb_0.3.7.bb
index 48a7701db..d65e043ec 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libxmlb/libxmlb_0.3.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/libxmlb/libxmlb_0.3.7.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library to help create and query binary XML blobs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1803fa9c2c3ce8cb06b4861d75310742"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb.git;branch=main;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/pyxdg/pyxdg_0.27.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/pyxdg/pyxdg_0.27.bb
index 35ecd7ff5..abc1c2327 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/pyxdg/pyxdg_0.27.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/pyxdg/pyxdg_0.27.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A Python module to deal with freedesktop.org specifications"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg"
 SECTION = "devel/python"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f30a9716ef3762e3467a2f62bf790f0a"
 SRCREV = "f097a66923a65e93640c48da83e6e9cfbddd86ba"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/vte9/vte9.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/vte9/vte9.inc
index c191a6d29..49b974012 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/vte9/vte9.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/vte9/vte9.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Virtual terminal emulator GTK+ widget library"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=vte"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.0"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = " glib-2.0 gtk+ intltool-native gnome-common-native ncurses"
 RDEPENDS:libvte = "vte-termcap"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm-1.16_1.16.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm-1.16_1.16.1.bb
index 98ad0a425..61892d367 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm-1.16_1.16.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm-1.16_1.16.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for Cairo graphics library"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c46bda00ffbb0ba1dac22f8d087f54d9"
 GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm_1.14.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm_1.14.3.bb
index 2e16da312..8123509f4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm_1.14.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/cairo/cairomm_1.14.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for Cairo graphics library"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c46bda00ffbb0ba1dac22f8d087f54d9"
 GNOMEBASEBUILDCLASS = "meson"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dietsplash/dietsplash_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dietsplash/dietsplash_git.bb
index 541b93896..44fc2d08c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dietsplash/dietsplash_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dietsplash/dietsplash_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Simple bootsplash for systemd systems"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 # Really, no depends besides a C library
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
index 7ac21779a..07b98648f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/directfb/directfb.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for \
 translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the \
 Linux framebuffer device."
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=dcf3c825659e82539645da41a7908589"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://directfb.org"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dnfdragora/dnfdragora_2.1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dnfdragora/dnfdragora_2.1.2.bb
index 331e00fb8..671b8ca93 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dnfdragora/dnfdragora_2.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/dnfdragora/dnfdragora_2.1.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "dnfdragora is a DNF frontend, based on rpmdragora from Mageia (originally rpmdrake) Perl code."
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                   "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbgrab/fbgrab_1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbgrab/fbgrab_1.5.bb
index 833a41683..7b52ead90 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbgrab/fbgrab_1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbgrab/fbgrab_1.5.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "FBGrab is a framebuffer screenshot program"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/GunnarMonell/fbgrab"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ea5bed2f60d357618ca161ad539f7c0a"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 DEPENDS = "libpng zlib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbida/fbida_2.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbida/fbida_2.14.bb
index 99953189e..c1ef3430c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbida/fbida_2.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fbida/fbida_2.14.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://linux.bytesex.org/fbida/"
 AUTHOR = "Gerd Hoffmann"
 SECTION = "utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e8feb78a32950a909621bbb51f634b39"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libiconv jpeg fontconfig freetype libexif libdrm pixman poppler libepoxy cairo"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20190801.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20190801.bb
index e715f7433..cb5f4d5ea 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20190801.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fontforge/fontforge_20190801.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A font editor"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING.gplv3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
    file://LICENSE;md5=d042f3d2a8fd7208b704a499168e3c89 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fvwm/fvwm_2.6.9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fvwm/fvwm_2.6.9.bb
index b2ad1b611..75b24bf88 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fvwm/fvwm_2.6.9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/fvwm/fvwm_2.6.9.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "F Virtual Window Manager "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.fvwm.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f8204787357db6ea518dcc9b6cf08388"
 DEPENDS = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/gphoto2_2.5.27.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/gphoto2_2.5.27.bb
index e4be2d7f4..84ff67723 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/gphoto2_2.5.27.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/gphoto2_2.5.27.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "gphoto2 - a command-line frontend to libgphoto2"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gphoto.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
 DEPENDS = "libgphoto2 popt readline"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/libgphoto2_2.5.27.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/libgphoto2_2.5.27.bb
index 6f8d424a9..cb289751e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/libgphoto2_2.5.27.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gphoto2/libgphoto2_2.5.27.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "libgphoto2 allows you to access digital cameras"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0448d3676bc0de00406af227d341a4d1"
 DEPENDS = "libtool jpeg virtual/libusb0 libexif zlib libxml2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkperf/gtkperf_0.40.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkperf/gtkperf_0.40.bb
index a2ecf95d4..0c4f81989 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkperf/gtkperf_0.40.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkperf/gtkperf_0.40.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "GTK Performance tool"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/${BPN}/${BPN}_${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.111.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.111.bb
index 36b1e0440..eee9de749 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.111.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/gtkwave/gtkwave_3.3.111.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "VCD (Value Change Dump) file waveform viewer"
 DESCRIPTION = "gtkwave is a viewer for VCD (Value Change Dump) files which are usually created by digital circuit simulators. (These files have no connection to video CDs!) "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=75859989545e37968a99b631ef42722e"
 SRC_URI = "http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/gtkwave-gtk3-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libforms/libforms_1.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libforms/libforms_1.2.3.bb
index 9e57560d2..838c1d517 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libforms/libforms_1.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libforms/libforms_1.2.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The XForms graphical interface widget library	"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/"
 PR = "r0"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=ade9a053df81f5b9408d2f4f5546df86"
 SRC_URI = "http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/xforms/xforms-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libsdl/libsdl_1.2.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libsdl/libsdl_1.2.15.bb
index 785ce6c8a..9085c6d2f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libsdl/libsdl_1.2.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libsdl/libsdl_1.2.15.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=27818cd7fd83877a8e3ef82b82798ef4"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/libsdl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libvncserver/libvncserver_0.9.13.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libvncserver/libvncserver_0.9.13.bb
index e3f2dafec..93f695173 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libvncserver/libvncserver_0.9.13.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libvncserver/libvncserver_0.9.13.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "library for easy implementation of a RDP/VNC server"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://libvnc.github.io"
 SECTION = "libs"
 PRIORITY = "optional"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=361b6b837cad26c6900a926b62aada5f"
 # ffmpeg support is not currently compatible with ffmpeg 5.0
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui-ncurses_4.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui-ncurses_4.1.1.bb
index bdcbfd7c3..8eb77291a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui-ncurses_4.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui-ncurses_4.1.1.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Character Based User Interface for libyui"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING.lgpl-3;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
    file://../COPYING.lgpl-2.1;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui_4.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui_4.1.1.bb
index 4ea217736..477856166 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui_4.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/libyui/libyui_4.1.1.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Libyui is a widget abstraction library providing Qt, GTK and ncurses frontends."
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING.gpl-3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://../COPYING.lgpl-2.1;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                    file://../COPYING.lgpl-3;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_0.5.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_0.5.3.bb
index a0c86223e..83b15ce8e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_0.5.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/lxdm/lxdm_0.5.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "LXDM is the lightweight display manager"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://blog.lxde.org/?p=531"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/project/${BPN}/${BPN}%20${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
           file://lxdm.conf \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/numlockx/numlockx_1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/numlockx/numlockx_1.2.bb
index 3f6ab4452..0d53c78f3 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/numlockx/numlockx_1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/numlockx/numlockx_1.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Enable NumLock in X11 sessions"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://home.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/"
 SECTION = "x11/apps"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=dcb1cc75e21540a4a66b54e38d95b047"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11 libxtst"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/obconf_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/obconf_git.bb
index 4ff0d2621..772347190 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/obconf_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/obconf_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Openbox configuration tool"
 AUTHOR = "Dana Jansens & Tim Riley & Javeed Shaikh"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://openbox.org/wiki/ObConf:About"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = " \
    openbox \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox_3.6.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox_3.6.1.bb
index 6ada9b7d2..4c97c0397 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox_3.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/openbox/openbox_3.6.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "openbox Window Manager"
 SECTION = "x11/wm"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 pango libxml2 virtual/libx11 libcroco librsvg gdk-pixbuf"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm-2.48_2.50.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm-2.48_2.50.0.bb
index 29d7b285f..84aedba21 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm-2.48_2.50.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm-2.48_2.50.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the pango library"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm_2.46.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm_2.46.2.bb
index 0ba0a7781..9959bdf0f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm_2.46.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/pango/pangomm_2.46.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "C++ bindings for the pango library"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499 \
                    file://COPYING.tools;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/qrencode/qrencode_4.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/qrencode/qrencode_4.1.1.bb
index defaaeea7..143ab6a0b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/qrencode/qrencode_4.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/qrencode/qrencode_4.1.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "C library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol"
 AUTHOR = "Kentaro Fukuchi"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 SRCREV = "715e29fd4cd71b6e452ae0f4e36d917b43122ce8"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/stalonetray/stalonetray_0.8.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/stalonetray/stalonetray_0.8.3.bb
index 7db70ec96..161650f75 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/stalonetray/stalonetray_0.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/stalonetray/stalonetray_0.8.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Stand-alone system tray"
 DESCRIPTION = "Stalonetray is a stand-alone freedesktop.org and KDE system tray"
 SECTION = "x11/graphics"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libx11"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/suckless/st_0.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/suckless/st_0.8.4.bb
index c4bb1d2df..acd4cab96 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/suckless/st_0.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/suckless/st_0.8.4.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SECTION = "shadow"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=04c3ca13a702147c62db90f556c5b3ca"
 SRC_URI = "http://dl.suckless.org/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb
index a946d92ff..5f404f2aa 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "TigerVNC remote display system"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.tigervnc.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 SECTION = "x11/utils"
 DEPENDS = "xserver-xorg gnutls jpeg libxtst gettext-native fltk libpam"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "coreutils hicolor-icon-theme perl bash"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.22.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.22.bb
index 2cdac40fb..c2000b264 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.22.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.22.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://tslib.org/"
 AUTHOR = "Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
    file://COPYING;md5=fc178bcd425090939a8b634d1d6a9594 \
    file://tests/COPYING;md5=a23a74b3f4caf9616230789d94217acb \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-hunkyfonts_0.3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-hunkyfonts_0.3.1.bb
index 964a67600..e361ce9f6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-hunkyfonts_0.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-hunkyfonts_0.3.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require ttf.inc
 SUMMARY = "Hunky fonts - TTF Version"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunkyfonts"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYRIGHT.TXT;md5=70d34478e38b1ad9995079f9921f9ef7"
 PR = "r7"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation-sans-narrow_1.07.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation-sans-narrow_1.07.4.bb
index d186bc5a9..f386d6ec5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation-sans-narrow_1.07.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation-sans-narrow_1.07.4.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ created by Ascender(c) which aims at metric compatibility with \
 Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SRC_URI = "https://releases.pagure.org/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation_0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation_0.2.bb
index b2e2ed8b4..fdcfe0421 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation_0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-liberation_0.2.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require ttf.inc
 SUMMARY = "Liberation fonts - TTF Version"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                    file://License.txt;md5=5b171c5100029d884fcea21d9a2b7543 \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-lklug_0.6-14.20090803cvs.fc24.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-lklug_0.6-14.20090803cvs.fc24.bb
index b21fbdf8a..8a7c1f333 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-lklug_0.6-14.20090803cvs.fc24.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-lklug_0.6-14.20090803cvs.fc24.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require ttf.inc
 SUMMARY = "Fonts for Sinhala language - TTF Edition"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rpms.famillecollet.com/rpmphp/zoom.php?rpm=lklug-fonts"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SRC_URI = "http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/24/Everything/source/tree/Packages/l/lklug-fonts-0.6-14.20090803cvs.fc24.src.rpm;extract=lklug-20090803.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-tlwg_0.6.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-tlwg_0.6.1.bb
index 05c2d825d..3dad36840 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-tlwg_0.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-tlwg_0.6.1.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require ttf.inc
 SUMMARY = "Thai Linux Working Group Fonts"
 AUTHOR = "Thai Linux Working Group"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linux.thai.net/projects/fonts-tlwg"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & TLWG"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & TLWG"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../fonts-tlwg-${PV}/COPYING;md5=3d20cd7eadf4afd5460c0adb32e387fd"
 SRC_URI = "http://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/fonts-tlwg/fonts-tlwg-${PV}.tar.xz;name=source \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-wqy-zenhei_0.9.45.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-wqy-zenhei_0.9.45.bb
index 20c5f6e2a..bc14febad 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-wqy-zenhei_0.9.45.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/ttf-fonts/ttf-wqy-zenhei_0.9.45.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require ttf.inc
 SUMMARY = "WenQuanYi Zen Hei - A Hei-Ti Style Chinese font"
 AUTHOR = "Qianqian Fang and The WenQuanYi Project Contributors"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wenq.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=cf540fc7d35b5777e36051280b3a911c"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/wqy/wqy-zenhei-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.16.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.16.bb
index 0a7af92da..5f7c0beb6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.16.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/x11vnc/x11vnc_0.9.16.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/"
 SECTION = "x11/utils"
 AUTHOR = "Karl Runge"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                    file://src/x11vnc.h;endline=31;md5=e871a2ad004776794b616822dcab6314"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-data/xorg-data-common.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-data/xorg-data-common.inc
index 958fecc11..1c6408d0d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-data/xorg-data-common.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-data/xorg-data-common.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 SECTION = "x11/data"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 XORG_PN = "${BPN}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-doc/xorg-doc-common.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-doc/xorg-doc-common.inc
index f4b8b00de..aa4795edc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-doc/xorg-doc-common.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-doc/xorg-doc-common.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "X documentation"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.x.org"
 SECTION = "x11/docs"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 SRC_URI = "${XORG_MIRROR}/individual/doc/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-armsoc_1.4.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-armsoc_1.4.1.bb
index 404df4ee9..8b4526fc5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-armsoc_1.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xf86-video-armsoc_1.4.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require recipes-graphics/xorg-driver/xorg-driver-video.inc
 SUMMARY = "X.Org X server -- ARM SOC display driver"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "MIT & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=10ce5de3b111315ea652a5f74ec0c602"
 DEPENDS += "virtual/libx11 libdrm xorgproto"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_6.01.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_6.01.bb
index ea4563a6e..2ab529794 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_6.01.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_6.01.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "X screen saver and locker"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/"
-LICENSE = "BSD-0-Clause"
+LICENSE = "0BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://driver/xscreensaver.h;endline=10;md5=c3ce41cdff745eb1dc9d4fcfbffb4d51"
 SRC_URI = "https://www.jwz.org/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xserver-common/xserver-common_1.34.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xserver-common/xserver-common_1.34.bb
index 87c373d89..574d259bd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xserver-common/xserver-common_1.34.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/xserver-common/xserver-common_1.34.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Common X11 scripts and support files"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 PR = "r9"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/yad/yad_6.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/yad/yad_6.0.bb
index 029d79316..40fccbdc1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/yad/yad_6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/yad/yad_6.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Yet Another Dialog"
 DESCRIPTION = "Program allowing you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from command line or shell scripts."
 AUTHOR = "Victor Ananjevsky"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/v1cont/yad.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/agent-proxy/agent-proxy_1.97.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/agent-proxy/agent-proxy_1.97.bb
index 57232f8d5..0e17800c4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/agent-proxy/agent-proxy_1.97.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/agent-proxy/agent-proxy_1.97.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Proxy for UDP/TCP debug connections"
 DESCRIPTION = "The agent-proxy will forward tcp or udp connections as well as allow for script multiplexing of terminal sessions."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://kgdb.wiki.kernel.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 SECTION = "devel"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/bpftool/bpftool.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/bpftool/bpftool.bb
index 76a749644..01046c063 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/bpftool/bpftool.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/bpftool/bpftool.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Inspect and manipulate eBPF programs and maps"
 DESCRIPTION = "bpftool is a kernel tool for inspection and simple manipulation \
 of eBPF programs and maps."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = "binutils elfutils"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/bpftool"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb
index c31ccbb4a..18e363805 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/cpupower/cpupower.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Shows and sets processor power related values"
 DESCRIPTION = "cpupower is a collection of tools to examine and tune power \
 saving related features of your processor."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = "pciutils gettext-native"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/cpupower"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/crash/crash_7.3.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/crash/crash_7.3.0.bb
index 35de3c5c3..d4aa0d52b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/crash/crash_7.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/crash/crash_7.3.0.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ offered by Mission Critical Linux, or the LKCD kernel patch."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://people.redhat.com/anderson"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "zlib readline coreutils-native ncurses-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/intel-speed-select/intel-speed-select.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/intel-speed-select/intel-speed-select.bb
index 109a46c4d..c895e6c1d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/intel-speed-select/intel-speed-select.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/intel-speed-select/intel-speed-select.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The Intel Speed Select Technology (Intel SST) is a powerful new \
 collection of features giving you more granular control over CPU performance \
 for optimized total cost of ownership."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 inherit kernelsrc
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb
index d0f246b93..d5e8e4b49 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Kernel selftest for Linux"
 DESCRIPTION = "Kernel selftest for Linux"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING;md5=bbea815ee2795b2f4230826c0c6b8814"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kpatch/kpatch.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kpatch/kpatch.inc
index 13c454921..4d187200e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kpatch/kpatch.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kpatch/kpatch.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Linux dynamic kernel patching infrastructure"
 DESCRIPTION = "kpatch is a Linux dynamic kernel patching infrastructure which allows you to patch a running kernel without rebooting or restarting any processes."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = "elfutils bash"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/dynup/kpatch.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/libbpf/libbpf_0.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/libbpf/libbpf_0.5.0.bb
index 4a3b834c7..d1360f66d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/libbpf/libbpf_0.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/libbpf/libbpf_0.5.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Library for BPF handling"
 DESCRIPTION = "Library for BPF handling"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../LICENSE.LGPL-2.1;md5=b370887980db5dd40659b50909238dbd"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/linux/linux.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/linux/linux.inc
index f13424476..b4b066122 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/linux/linux.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/linux/linux.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Linux Kernel"
 SECTION = "kernel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d7810fab7487fb0aad327b76f1be7cd7"
 INC_PR = "r0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_1.7.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_1.7.0.bb
index e703ee71b..d4da03186 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_1.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/makedumpfile/makedumpfile_1.7.0.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "\
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 SRCBRANCH ?= "master"
 SRCREV = "06ef8e2b814feb08a668b7a3783c86674e49a7b1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb
index 887390c8b..bf9915294 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "minicoredumper provides an alternate core dump facility for Linux \
 to allow minimal and customized crash dumps"
-LICENSE = " LGPLv2.1 & BSD-2-Clause"
+LICENSE = " LGPL-2.1-only & BSD-2-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=71827c617ec7b45a0dd23658347cc1e9 \
                    file://COPYING.BSD;md5=b915ac80d5236d6aa659cb986daf00e5 \
                    file://COPYING.LGPLv2.1;md5=321bf41f280cf805086dd5a720b37785 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile_1.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile_1.4.0.bb
index ee37b6c6b..23e7d3d5c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile_1.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/oprofile/oprofile_1.4.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ of profiling all running code at low overhead."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=16191&atid=116191"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                    file://libopagent/opagent.h;beginline=5;endline=26;md5=4f16f72c7a493d8a4704aa18d03d15c6 \
                   "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/pm-graph/pm-graph_5.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/pm-graph/pm-graph_5.5.bb
index 0562f3111..6e52a58de 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/pm-graph/pm-graph_5.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/pm-graph/pm-graph_5.5.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY  = "Timing analysis tools for suspend/resume/boot"
 DESCRIPTION = "This tool suite is designed to assist kernel and OS developers \
 in optimizing their linux stack's suspend/resume & boot time."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://01.org/pm-graph"
-LICENSE  = "GPL-2"
+LICENSE  = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=12f884d2ae1ff87c09e5b7ccc2c4ca7e"
 SRCREV = "cf59527dc24fdd2f314ae4dcaeb3d68a117988f6"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/spidev-test/spidev-test.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/spidev-test/spidev-test.bb
index 3907ed59f..81e832703 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/spidev-test/spidev-test.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/spidev-test/spidev-test.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Test SPI devices"
 DESCRIPTION = "SPI testing utility using the spidev driver"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/spidev-test"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_2.9.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_2.9.1.bb
index 2735ee78a..664070738 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_2.9.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/trace-cmd/trace-cmd_2.9.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "User-space front-end command-line tool for ftrace"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=873f48a813bded3de6ebc54e6880c4ac"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/turbostat/turbostat_3.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/turbostat/turbostat_3.4.bb
index c9f946459..bdc37c038 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/turbostat/turbostat_3.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/turbostat/turbostat_3.4.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The turbostat tool allows you to determine the actual \
 processor frequency and idle power saving state residency on supported \
 processors."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING;md5=bbea815ee2795b2f4230826c0c6b8814"
 COMPATIBLE_HOST = '(x86_64.*|i.86.*)-linux'
 COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = "null"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/usbip-tools/usbip-tools.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/usbip-tools/usbip-tools.bb
index a2b0dea55..47938969b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/usbip-tools/usbip-tools.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/usbip-tools/usbip-tools.bb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ USB device. Client is a machine which uses USB device provided by server \
 over the network. The USB device may be either physical device connected \
 to a server or software entity created on a server using USB gadget subsystem."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel udev"
 PROVIDES = "virtual/usbip-tools"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-oss_1.1.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-oss_1.1.8.bb
index c8ea8b177..4c38df402 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-oss_1.1.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-oss_1.1.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Alsa OSS Compatibility Package"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ed055b4eff93da784176a01582e6ec1a"
 DEPENDS = "alsa-lib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/audiofile/audiofile_0.3.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/audiofile/audiofile_0.3.6.bb
index f4e19e4ad..e91c81d70 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/audiofile/audiofile_0.3.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/audiofile/audiofile_0.3.6.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ WAVE, NeXT/Sun .snd/.au, Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL Sound File, Audio Visual \
 Research, Amiga IFF/8SVX, and NIST SPHERE."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/cdrkit/cdrkit_1.1.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/cdrkit/cdrkit_1.1.11.bb
index e9841e483..dd0405c95 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/cdrkit/cdrkit_1.1.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/cdrkit/cdrkit_1.1.11.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "CD/DVD command line tools"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cdrkit.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b30d3b2750b668133fc17b401e1b98f8"
 # While writing download from cdrkit.org was broken so get sources from debian
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.8.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.8.8.bb
index 8b3aafc3b..56d5e1201 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.8.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/faad2/faad2_2.8.8.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "An open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC decoding library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.audiocoding.com/faad2.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=381c8cbe277a7bc1ee2ae6083a04c958"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/id3lib/id3lib_3.8.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/id3lib/id3lib_3.8.3.bb
index 21fa0bda1..a7d645f59 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/id3lib/id3lib_3.8.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/id3lib/id3lib_3.8.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for interacting with ID3 tags"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3bf50002aefd002f49e7bb854063f7e7"
 DEPENDS = "zlib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/a2jmidid_9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/a2jmidid_9.bb
index fa4da18c8..339145dd0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/a2jmidid_9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/a2jmidid_9.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "a2jmidid is daemon for exposing ALSA sequencer applications as JACK MIDI"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://LICENSE;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_1.19.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_1.19.19.bb
index 8411cbaef..97b0edeed 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_1.19.19.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_1.19.19.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ flow model and lock-free programming techniques for graph access have \
 been used to have a more dynamic and robust system."
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://common/jack/control.h;beginline=2;endline=21;md5=e6df0bf30cde8b3b825451459488195d \
    file://common/jack/jack.h;beginline=1;endline=19;md5=6b736ed6b810592b135480a5e853392e \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libburn/libburn_1.5.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libburn/libburn_1.5.4.bb
index 0cae7c54b..99eda6964 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libburn/libburn_1.5.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libburn/libburn_1.5.4.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for reading, mastering and writing optical discs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libburnia-project.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9ac2e7cff1ddaf48b6eab6028f23ef88"
 SRC_URI = "http://files.libburnia-project.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio-paranoia_10.2+2.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio-paranoia_10.2+2.0.1.bb
index 3ca91f64a..53404e54a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio-paranoia_10.2+2.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio-paranoia_10.2+2.0.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "library to read digital audio CDs with error correction"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/"
 BUGTRUCKER = "https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia/issues/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "libcdio"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio_2.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio_2.1.0.bb
index 170a555b9..1facd47d8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libcdio/libcdio_2.1.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "The GNU Compact Disc Input and Control library (libcdio) contains a library for CD-ROM and CD image access."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libcdio/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.bz2 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libdvdread/libdvdread_6.1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libdvdread/libdvdread_6.1.2.bb
index 791b4ae3e..054fe4a48 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libdvdread/libdvdread_6.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libdvdread/libdvdread_6.1.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "DVD access multimeda library"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=64e753fa7d1ca31632bc383da3b57c27"
 SRC_URI = "http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libdvdread/${PV}/libdvdread-${PV}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
index 80581765a..2f7edfb75 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libid3tag/libid3tag_0.15.1b.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for interacting with ID3 tags in MP3 files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12349&atid=112349"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
                        file://COPYRIGHT;md5=5e6279efb87c26c6e5e7a68317a6a87a \
                        file://version.h;beginline=1;endline=8;md5=86ac68b67f054b7afde9e149bbc3fe63"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
index 2538cc4f1..d3ac85ee0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmad/libmad_0.15.1b.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "MPEG Audio Decoder library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12349&atid=112349"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
    file://COPYRIGHT;md5=8e55eb14894e782b84488d5a239bc23d \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmms/libmms_0.6.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmms/libmms_0.6.4.bb
index 3e528fecf..62c20c612 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmms/libmms_0.6.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/libmms/libmms_0.6.4.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "MMS stream protocol library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmms/"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fad9b3332be894bab9bc501572864b29"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/project/${BPN}/${BPN}/${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/live555/live555_20210824.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/live555/live555_20210824.bb
index deacab2ac..0e0229779 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/live555/live555_20210824.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/live555/live555_20210824.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://live.com/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 SECTION = "devel"
 DEPENDS = "openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mikmod/libmikmod_3.3.11.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mikmod/libmikmod_3.3.11.1.bb
index 76e10f86a..e0712ba93 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mikmod/libmikmod_3.3.11.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mikmod/libmikmod_3.3.11.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libmikmod is a module player library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm."
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "alsa-lib texinfo"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/mpv_0.34.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/mpv_0.34.1.bb
index 57e58b1ba..c600e88f8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/mpv_0.34.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/mplayer/mpv_0.34.1.bb
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DEPENDS += " \
    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', ' virtual/libx11 xsp libxv libxscrnsaver libxinerama', '', d)} \
 "
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.GPL;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRCREV_mpv = "349e437466163cb52f7d0aa227d4606edd9db501"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_4.0.bb
index 591703e86..5f9d7a6ba 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pavucontrol_4.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is a simple GTK based volume control tool ("mixer") for the PulseAudio sound server."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/"
 SECTION = "x11/multimedia"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 # glib-2.0-native is required for glib-gettextize, which is used by the
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/sound-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop_0.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/sound-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop_0.8.bb
index e4fb4ff02..87320a98e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/sound-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop_0.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/sound-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop_0.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Freedesktop sound theme"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & CC-BY-3.0 & CC-BY-SA-3.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & CC-BY-3.0 & CC-BY-SA-3.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://CREDITS;md5=3213e601ce34bb42ddc3498903ac4e69"
 # glib-2.0 for glib-gettext.m4 which provides AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/v4l-utils_1.20.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/v4l-utils_1.20.0.bb
index 866c0c5a7..fd8c4d583 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/v4l-utils_1.20.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/v4l-utils_1.20.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "v4l2 and IR applications"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=48da9957849056017dc568bbc43d8975 \
                    file://COPYING.libv4l;md5=d749e86a105281d7a44c2328acebc4b0"
 PROVIDES = "libv4l media-ctl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/yavta_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/yavta_git.bb
index 39e73d3b7..10176634b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/yavta_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/v4l2apps/yavta_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Yet Another V4L2 Test Application"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.GPL;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.ideasonboard.org/yavta.git;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geoclue/geoclue_2.5.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geoclue/geoclue_2.5.7.bb
index 9a961adcd..3abb62944 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geoclue/geoclue_2.5.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geoclue/geoclue_2.5.7.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Geoclue is a D-Bus service that provides location information. \
 The primary goal of the Geoclue project is to make creating location-aware applications \
 as simple as possible, while the secondary goal is to ensure that no application \
 can access location information without explicit permission from user."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bdfdd4986a0853eb84eeba85f9d0c4d6"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geos/geos.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geos/geos.inc
index b09e584ac..bfac69b09 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geos/geos.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/geos/geos.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GEOS - Geometry Engine, Open Source"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRC_URI = "http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-${PV}.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/libspatialite/libspatialite_4.3.0a.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/libspatialite/libspatialite_4.3.0a.bb
index c2e0688b5..f6c765519 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/libspatialite/libspatialite_4.3.0a.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/libspatialite/libspatialite_4.3.0a.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "proj geos sqlite3 libxml2 zlib"
-LICENSE = "MPLv1.1 & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "MPL-1.1 & GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0e92e1a36cc384b60f5b31dde0bdd39e"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/libspatialite-sources/libspatialite-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/orrery/orrery_2.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/orrery/orrery_2.7.bb
index 510b0b04b..100ecb133 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/orrery/orrery_2.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-navigation/orrery/orrery_2.7.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Astronomical application which displays the night sky"
 HOMEPAGE    = "http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/orrery/"
 SECTION = "x11/scientific"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://orrery.c;endline=25;md5=d792bdf2b591972da175aecc38d88cfe"
 DEPENDS = "gtk+"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-printing/cups/cups-filters.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-printing/cups/cups-filters.inc
index 061c8a625..5952b5a2a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-printing/cups/cups-filters.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-printing/cups/cups-filters.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "CUPS backends, filters, and other software"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/cups-filters"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2 & MIT & GPLv2+ & GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.0-only & MIT & GPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d77679ce6a2cc4d873d4ebbf2a401e6"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-printing/gutenprint/gutenprint.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-printing/gutenprint/gutenprint.inc
index 0a162d2b5..1f712585f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-printing/gutenprint/gutenprint.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-printing/gutenprint/gutenprint.inc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Gutenprint printer drivers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.code.sf.net/p/gimp-print/source;protocol=https;branch=master"
 SRCREV = "8e47dc44dd7738302ba9e8fbc1f918461fed0236"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_2.8.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_2.8.5.bb
index b3a377d8a..347c85506 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_2.8.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_2.8.5.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem \
 in the Linux kernel."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linux-audit/${BPN}-userspace.git;branch=2.8_maintenance;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_3.0.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_3.0.6.bb
index 7e4cc274e..d99d9a87c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_3.0.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-security/audit/audit_3.0.6.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem \
 in the Linux kernel."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/linux-audit/${BPN}-userspace.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-security/keyutils/keyutils_1.6.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-security/keyutils/keyutils_1.6.1.bb
index 6273edd7e..8a95a15f6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-security/keyutils/keyutils_1.6.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-security/keyutils/keyutils_1.6.1.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "\
 HOMEPAGE = "http://people.redhat.com/dhowells/keyutils"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & GPLv2.0+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE.GPL;md5=5f6e72824f5da505c1f4a7197f004b45 \
                    file://LICENCE.LGPL;md5=7d1cacaa3ea752b72ea5e525df54a21f"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-security/nmap/nmap_7.80.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-security/nmap/nmap_7.80.bb
index c2e3585f9..030f03348 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-security/nmap/nmap_7.80.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-security/nmap/nmap_7.80.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "network auditing tool"
 DESCRIPTION = "Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing.\nGui support via appending to IMAGE_FEATURES x11-base in local.conf"
 SECTION = "security"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;beginline=7;endline=12;md5=66938a7e5b4c118eda78271de14874c2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-security/tomoyo-tools/tomoyo-tools_2.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-security/tomoyo-tools/tomoyo-tools_2.5.0.bb
index 4b36dd63e..a1c4cc9eb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-security/tomoyo-tools/tomoyo-tools_2.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-security/tomoyo-tools/tomoyo-tools_2.5.0.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "00fedfac5e514321250bbe69eaccc732c8a8158596f77a785c2e3ae9f9
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.tomoyo;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 FILES:${PN}     += "${libdir}/tomoyo"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-shells/dash/dash_0.5.11.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-shells/dash/dash_0.5.11.5.bb
index 20f840411..ad3672f3e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-shells/dash/dash_0.5.11.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-shells/dash/dash_0.5.11.5.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Small and fast POSIX-compliant shell"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/"
 SECTION = "System Environment/Shells"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b5262b4a1a1bff72b48e935531976d2e"
 inherit autotools update-alternatives
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/anthy/anthy_9100h.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/anthy/anthy_9100h.bb
index 3ca394ac3..2a6cfb571 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/anthy/anthy_9100h.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/anthy/anthy_9100h.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION="Anthy is a system for Japanese input method. It converts Hiragana t
 AUTHOR = "Anthy Developers <anthy-dev@lists.sourceforge.jp>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://anthy.sourceforge.jp"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=11f384074d8e93e263b5664ef08a411a \
    file://alt-cannadic/COPYING;md5=c93c0550bd3173f4504b2cbd8991e50b \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/atop/atop_2.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/atop/atop_2.4.0.bb
index 819303c57..35540b3b8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/atop/atop_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/atop/atop_2.4.0.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ utilization, priority, username, state, and exit code."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.atoptool.nl"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses zlib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/augeas/augeas.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/augeas/augeas.inc
index d83ba493e..d46f3888b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/augeas/augeas.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/augeas/augeas.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Augeas configuration API"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://augeas.net/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://fedorahosted.org/augeas/report/1"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bbb461211a33b134d42ed5ee802b37ff"
 SRC_URI = "http://download.augeas.net/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/frame_2.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/frame_2.5.0.bb
index f8282583d..3ccd9a137 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/frame_2.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/frame_2.5.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Frame handles simultaneous touches"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/frame"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
    file://COPYING.GPL3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/geis_2.2.17.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/geis_2.2.17.bb
index 5f93d8df0..a1a28a892 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/geis_2.2.17.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/geis_2.2.17.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ system-wide input gesture recognition mechanism."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/geis"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6 \
    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/grail_3.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/grail_3.1.1.bb
index 3e5af2a29..6646c8bfc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/grail_3.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/canonical-multitouch/grail_3.1.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Gesture Recognition And Instantiation Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/grail"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
    file://COPYING.GPL3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/ccid/ccid_1.4.33.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/ccid/ccid_1.4.33.bb
index e3cb7cef1..7b260f177 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/ccid/ccid_1.4.33.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/ccid/ccid_1.4.33.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://ccid.apdu.fr/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/libusb0 pcsc-lite"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/colord/colord.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/colord/colord.inc
index 09e600c94..41962cd63 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/colord/colord.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/colord/colord.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Making color management just work"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
    file://meson.build;beginline=3;endline=3;md5=f42198707d793be58b274d34fd5238c3 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/consolation/consolation_0.0.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/consolation/consolation_0.0.8.bb
index 01a02d496..0936b1ae1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/consolation/consolation_0.0.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/consolation/consolation_0.0.8.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ supports all pointer devices and settings provided by this library. Similar \
 software include gpm and jamd."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://salsa.debian.org/consolation-team/consolation"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=73ca626e1d9048abfc7d599370650827"
 DEPENDS = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/devmem2/devmem2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/devmem2/devmem2.bb
index d0a86184a..92c05fe06 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/devmem2/devmem2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/devmem2/devmem2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Simple program to read/write from/to any location in memory"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://devmem2.c;endline=38;md5=a9eb9f3890384519f435aedf986297cf"
 PR = "r7"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/dfu-util/dfu-util_0.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/dfu-util/dfu-util_0.11.bb
index 5a1e4aac5..7f80a3053 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/dfu-util/dfu-util_0.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/dfu-util/dfu-util_0.11.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "USB Device Firmware Upgrade utility"
 AUTHOR = "Harald Welte <laforge@openmoko.org>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dfu-util.sourceforge.net"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/dhex/dhex_0.69.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/dhex/dhex_0.69.bb
index 6f8c86a16..3cc870481 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/dhex/dhex_0.69.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/dhex/dhex_0.69.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.dettus.net/dhex/"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.txt;beginline=229;endline=241;md5=6f252a421b65bcecf624382ba3c899da"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.dettus.net/dhex/dhex_0.69.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/digitemp/digitemp_3.7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/digitemp/digitemp_3.7.2.bb
index cac2b4fd6..656509733 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/digitemp/digitemp_3.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/digitemp/digitemp_3.7.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "read temperature sensors in a 1-Wire net"
 SECTION = "util"
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=44fee82a1d2ed0676cf35478283e0aa0"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/bcl/digitemp;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/dool/dool_1.0.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/dool/dool_1.0.0.bb
index 0cbc32ff3..d34397c12 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/dool/dool_1.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/dool/dool_1.0.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more cou
 and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, \
 benchmarks or troubleshooting."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS += "asciidoc-native xmlto-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/driverctl/driverctl_0.111.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/driverctl/driverctl_0.111.bb
index 2b9a2f808..f5f542c54 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/driverctl/driverctl_0.111.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/driverctl/driverctl_0.111.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "driverctl is a device driver control utility for Linux"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/LGPL-2.1-only;md5=1a6d268fd218675ffea8be556788b780"
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "systemd"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/eject/eject_2.1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/eject/eject_2.1.5.bb
index ca1a2457f..33b31a2b1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/eject/eject_2.1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/eject/eject_2.1.5.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Eject allows removable media (typically a CD-ROM, floppy disk, tape, or JAZ or ZIP disk) to be ejected under software control."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://eject.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b"
 inherit autotools gettext update-alternatives
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/emacs/emacs_27.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/emacs/emacs_27.2.bb
index 193cd0012..b78dc5e45 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/emacs/emacs_27.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/emacs/emacs_27.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 SRC_URI = "https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-${PV}.tar.xz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb
index f81ed670c..eed0ad1b9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://cihar.com/software/enca/"
 DEPENDS += "gettext-native"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=24b9569831c46d4818450b55282476b4"
 SRC_URI = "https://dl.cihar.com/enca/enca-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/espeak/espeak_1.48.04.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/espeak/espeak_1.48.04.bb
index 8dcc9789c..0dc61c1c3 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/espeak/espeak_1.48.04.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/espeak/espeak_1.48.04.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://License.txt;md5=cb7a20edb4c9f5f478de6523dcd7362c"
 SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/espeak/espeak-1.48.04-source.zip \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb
index 08710aa1d..4501b082d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/evemu-tools/evemu-tools_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Kernel evdev device emulation"
 DESCRIPTION = "The evemu library and tools are used to describe devices, record data, create devices and replay data from kernel evdev devices."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Evemu"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
 DEPENDS = "libevdev"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb
index d5d9e62ff..31afe78e4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Exif, Iptc and XMP metadata manipulation library and tools"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=625f055f41728f84a8d7938acc35bdc2"
 DEPENDS = "zlib expat"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/farsight/libnice_0.1.18.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/farsight/libnice_0.1.18.bb
index c65d72cd8..e7eaf0392 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/farsight/libnice_0.1.18.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/farsight/libnice_0.1.18.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Interactive Connectivity Establishment library"
 DESCRIPTION = "Libnice is an implementation of the IETF's draft Interactive Connectivity Establishment standard (ICE)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://nice.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & MPLv1.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & MPL-1.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9c42325015702feda4f4d2f19a55b767 \
                    file://COPYING.LGPL;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
                    file://COPYING.MPL;md5=3c617710e51cdbe0fc00716f056dfb1a \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fbset/fbset_2.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fbset/fbset_2.1.bb
index 969a6d23a..9870ee737 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fbset/fbset_2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fbset/fbset_2.1.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "The fbset console tool"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://users.telenet.be/geertu/Linux/fbdev/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://fbset.c;endline=19;md5=bf326f82cdfcac391af208f019c5603f"
 RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "fbset-modes"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native flex-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb
index 13541bce4..cb45e2b91 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "FFTW"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc
index 2eaf491b8..b1bc83578 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.fltk.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & FLTK"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only & FLTK"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f6b26344a24a941a01a5b0826e80b5ca"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb
index 118e3c50c..52c101633 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Gengetopt is a tool to write command line option parsing code for
 SECTION = "utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ff95bfe019feaf92f524b73dd79e76eb"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gengetopt/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gnulib/gnulib_2018-03-07.03.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gnulib/gnulib_2018-03-07.03.bb
index ac46b5676..2aab68e6a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gnulib/gnulib_2018-03-07.03.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gnulib/gnulib_2018-03-07.03.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ as a collection of portable idioms to be used in other projects."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=56a22a6e5bcce45e2c8ac184f81412b5"
 SRCREV = "0d6e3307bbdb8df4d56043d5f373eeeffe4cbef3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb
index 7e353d5af..cbb51d347 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gpm/gpm_git.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ for the console and xterm, with sample clients included \
 (emacs, etc)."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=18810669f13b87348459e611d31ab760"
 PV = "1.99.7+git${SRCREV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gradm/gradm_3.1-201903191516.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gradm/gradm_3.1-201903191516.bb
index b94bdad3a..0513f0dca 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gradm/gradm_3.1-201903191516.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gradm/gradm_3.1-201903191516.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ via a password to the kernel and parsing rules to be passed to the \
 kernel"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://grsecurity.net/index.php"
 SECTION = "admin"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=4641e94ec96f98fabc56ff9cc48be14b"
 DEPENDS = "flex-native bison-native ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'libpam', '', d)}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gsl/gsl.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gsl/gsl.inc
index 40613930b..0dd197efa 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gsl/gsl.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gsl/gsl.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "GNU Scientific Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig binconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hddtemp/hddtemp_0.3-beta15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hddtemp/hddtemp_0.3-beta15.bb
index 27d5c5fef..b4be39feb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hddtemp/hddtemp_0.3-beta15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hddtemp/hddtemp_0.3-beta15.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Hard disk temperature monitor daemon"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 PR = "r1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb
index 9106abec2..1fef9789c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hidapi/hidapi_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AUTHOR = "Alan Ott"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause | GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause | GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=7c3949a631240cb6c31c50f3eb696077"
 DEPENDS = "libusb udev"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/htop/htop_3.1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/htop/htop_3.1.2.bb
index d8e241ed0..4fe70982a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/htop/htop_3.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/htop/htop_3.1.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Interactive process viewer"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://htop.dev"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell-dictionaries.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell-dictionaries.bb
index 9e8583be1..047acf28d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell-dictionaries.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell-dictionaries.bb
@@ -5,61 +5,61 @@ SUMMARY = "Hunspell dictionaries used by Maliit"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/bg = "LGPL 2.1"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/br = "GPL 3.0"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ca-valencia = "GPL 2.0 & LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ca-valencia = "GPL 2.0 & LGPL-2.1-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ca = "GPL 2.0 & LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ca = "GPL 2.0 & LGPL-2.1-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/cs = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/cs = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/da = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/da = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/de-AT = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/de-AT = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/de-CH = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/de-CH = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/de = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/de = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/el-polyton = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/el-polyton = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/el = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/el = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/en-AU = "LGPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/en-AU = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/en-CA = "MIT & BSD"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/en-GB = "LGPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/en-GB = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/en-US = "MIT & BSD"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/en-ZA = "LGPL 2.1"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/eo = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/eo = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/es = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/es = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/et = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/et = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/eu = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/eu = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/fo = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/fo = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/fr = "MPL-2.0"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/fur = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/fur = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/fy = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/fy = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ga = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ga = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/gd = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/gd = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/gl = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/gl = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/he = "AGPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/he = "AGPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/hr = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/hr = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/hu = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/hu = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/hy-arevela = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/hy-arevela = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/hy-arevmda = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/hy-arevmda = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ia = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ia = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/ie = "Apache-2.0"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/is = "CC BY-SA 3.0 & CC BY 4.0"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/it = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/it = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ko = "MPL-1.1 & GPL-2.0 & LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ko = "MPL-1.1 & GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/la = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/la = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/lb = "EUPL-1.1"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/lt = "Other"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ltg = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ltg = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/lv = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/lv = "LGPL-2.1-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/mk = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/mk = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/mn = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/mn = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/nb = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/nb = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/nds = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/nds = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ne = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ne = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/nl = "BSD"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/nn = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/nn = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/pl = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/pl = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/pt-BR = "LGPL 2.1"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/pt = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/pt = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/ro = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/ro = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/ru = "BSD"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/rw = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/rw = "GPL-3.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/sk = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/sk = "GPL-2.0-only"
-LICENSE:dictionaries/sl = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE:dictionaries/sl = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/sr-Latn = "LGPL 3.0"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/sr = "LGPL 3.0"
 LICENSE:dictionaries/sv = "LGPL 3.0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell_1.7.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell_1.7.0.bb
index f5813dfcb..8d4dd5254 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell_1.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hunspell/hunspell_1.7.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A spell checker and morphological analyzer library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://hunspell.github.io/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 | LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only | LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://COPYING;md5=75859989545e37968a99b631ef42722e \
    file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=c96ca6c1de8adc025adfada81d06fba5 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.356.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.356.bb
index 6c2ae5e5a..6488897b6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.356.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/hwdata/hwdata_0.356.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Hardware identification and configuration data"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/vcrhonek/hwdata"
 SECTION = "System/Base"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+ | XFree86-1.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later | XFree86-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1556547711e8246992b999edd9445a57"
 SRCREV = "66a9f63255a06e2d9ec49501188ca47cb537675b"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/iksemel/iksemel_1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/iksemel/iksemel_1.5.bb
index ac23630d0..e01c0897b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/iksemel/iksemel_1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/iksemel/iksemel_1.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Fast and portable XML parser and Jabber protocol library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/meduketto/iksemel"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 SRCREV = "978b733462e41efd5db72bc9974cb3b0d1d5f6fa"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb
index 38ba91552..4e6bfbbc2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Command line tools and C library providing a simple interface to inot
 AUTHOR = "Rohan McGovern <rohan@mcgovern.id.au>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools"
 SECTION = "console/devel"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ac6c26e52aea428ee7f56dc2c56424c6"
 SRCREV = "4b72dcd15299e1d0cb096397d9aab513ffed1657"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.6.bb
index 674736a68..ed0bf337b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/joe/joe_4.6.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 SUMMARY = "Console text editor with good functionality, good choice for vi-haters"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/joe-editor/joe-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb
index c501b1534..47062cca5 100755
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tool gcov. It collects gcov data for multiple source files and creates \
 HTML pages containing the source code annotated with coverage information. \
 It also adds overview pages for easy navigation within the file structure. \
 LCOV supports statement, function and branch coverage measurement."
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libatasmart/libatasmart_0.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libatasmart/libatasmart_0.19.bb
index 4ca41cbcd..f747ecbf7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libatasmart/libatasmart_0.19.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libatasmart/libatasmart_0.19.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "ATA S.M.A.R.T. Reading and Parsing Library"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LGPL;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 DEPENDS = "udev"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libbytesize/libbytesize_2.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libbytesize/libbytesize_2.6.bb
index cbf6be476..154973254 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libbytesize/libbytesize_2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libbytesize/libbytesize_2.6.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "The goal of this project is to provide a tiny library that would \
 facilitate the common operations with sizes in bytes."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/rhinstaller/libbytesize"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c07cb499d259452f324bb90c3067d85c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcanberra/libcanberra_0.30.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcanberra/libcanberra_0.30.bb
index 37e2376b1..20fe910eb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcanberra/libcanberra_0.30.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcanberra/libcanberra_0.30.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Implementation of XDG Sound Theme and Name Specifications"
 DESCRIPTION = "Libcanberra is an implementation of the XDG Sound Theme and Name Specifications, for generating event sounds on free desktops."
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LGPL;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
                    file://src/canberra.h;beginline=7;endline=24;md5=c616c687cf8da540a14f917e0d23ab03"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcyusbserial/libcyusbserial_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcyusbserial/libcyusbserial_git.bb
index 35083847c..81453fb88 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcyusbserial/libcyusbserial_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libcyusbserial/libcyusbserial_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Enable userspace control of Cypress USB-Serial bridge devices"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/cyrozap/libcyusbserial"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/cyrozap/libcyusbserial/issues"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LESSER.txt;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "libusb udev"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libee/libee.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libee/libee.inc
index e5a145ab2..16fe557f7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libee/libee.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libee/libee.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ but hopefully convenient API layer above the CEE standard."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libee.org"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1c2687de35e36ba3b999136236a66cd6"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.libee.org/download/files/download/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz\
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libeigen/libeigen_3.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libeigen/libeigen_3.4.0.bb
index 9682f7a8e..1cae76b42 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libeigen/libeigen_3.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libeigen/libeigen_3.4.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms."
 AUTHOR = "Benoît Jacob and Gaël Guennebaud and others"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/"
-LICENSE = "MPL-2.0 & Apache-2.0 & BSD-3-Clause & GPLv3 & LGPLv2.1 & MINPACK"
+LICENSE = "MPL-2.0 & Apache-2.0 & BSD-3-Clause & GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only & MINPACK"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.MPL2;md5=815ca599c9df247a0c7f619bab123dad \
                    file://COPYING.BSD;md5=2dd0510ee95e59ca28834b875bc96596 \
                    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libestr/libestr_0.1.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libestr/libestr_0.1.11.bb
index ff61dd8fd..2ebf2757d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libestr/libestr_0.1.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libestr/libestr_0.1.11.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "some essentials for string handling (and a bit more)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libestr.adiscon.com/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9d6c993486c18262afba4ca5bcb894d0"
 SRC_URI = "http://libestr.adiscon.com/files/download/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libfann/libfann_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libfann/libfann_git.bb
index 5ab484d8a..2f52a0f3b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libfann/libfann_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libfann/libfann_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Fast Artificial Neural Network (FANN) Library is a free open sour
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libfann/fann"
 SECTION = "libs/devel"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=f14599a2f089f6ff8c97e2baa4e3d575"
 inherit cmake
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libftdi/libftdi_1.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libftdi/libftdi_1.4.bb
index d1cc721ad..f142cb228 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libftdi/libftdi_1.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libftdi/libftdi_1.4.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ FT232BM/245BM, FT2232C/D and FT232/245R using libusb,\
 including the popular bitbang mode."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM= "\
    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=5f30f0716dfdd0d91eb439ebec522ec2 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_1.6.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_1.6.3.bb
index 51b74ba5b..35e68b7e2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_1.6.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgpiod/libgpiod_1.6.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "C library and tools for interacting with the linux GPIO character device"
 AUTHOR = "Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2caced0b25dfefd4c601d92bd15116de"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgusb/libgusb_0.3.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgusb/libgusb_0.3.10.bb
index a606f175c..c208a2090 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgusb/libgusb_0.3.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libgusb/libgusb_0.3.10.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "GUsb is a GObject wrapper for libusb1"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libusb"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb
index f33fc0c1c..2c22838bb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libiio/libiio_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for interfacing with IIO devices"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/libiio"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.txt;md5=7c13b3376cea0ce68d2d2da0a1b3a72c"
 SRCREV = "565bf68eccfdbbf22cf5cb6d792e23de564665c7"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-jquery_3.3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-jquery_3.3.1.bb
index 1a5c35a4d..9130b110a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-jquery_3.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-jquery_3.3.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "JavaScript library for dynamic web applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://jquery.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2 | MIT"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only | MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://usr/share/doc/libjs-jquery/copyright;md5=04bfd6e5b918af29f2f79ce44527da62"
 SRC_URI = "http://kr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/j/jquery/${BPN}_${PV}~dfsg-3_all.deb"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-sizzle_1.10.18.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-sizzle_1.10.18.bb
index 417a11f50..e639ce59d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-sizzle_1.10.18.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libjs/libjs-sizzle_1.10.18.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/wiki"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0 & MIT & AFL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & MIT & AFL-2.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://MIT-LICENSE.txt;md5=e43aa437a6a1ba421653bd5034333bf9"
 SRC_URI = "http://kr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/sizzle/sizzle_1.10.18.orig.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libmanette/libmanette_0.2.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libmanette/libmanette_0.2.6.bb
index 78c75460e..5509b0bb0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libmanette/libmanette_0.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libmanette/libmanette_0.2.6.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Released under the MIT license (see COPYING.MIT for the terms)
 SUMMARY = "The simple GObject game controller library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libmanette/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "libevdev libgudev"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboauth/liboauth_1.0.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboauth/liboauth_1.0.3.bb
index 498764ac8..d4b817087 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboauth/liboauth_1.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboauth/liboauth_1.0.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "C library implementing OAuth Core RFC 5849"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://liboauth.sourceforge.net"
-LICENSE = "MIT|GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "MIT|GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.MIT;md5=6266718a5241c045c8099d9be48817df \
                    file://COPYING.GPL;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libol/libol_0.3.18.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libol/libol_0.3.18.bb
index b1e6da1bb..21a56264e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libol/libol_0.3.18.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libol/libol_0.3.18.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A tiny C support library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://my.balabit.com/downloads/libol"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c93c0550bd3173f4504b2cbd8991e50b"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.balabit.com/downloads/libol/0.3/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb
index 8894a867d..7ad88b740 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liboop/liboop_1.0.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Liboop is a low-level event loop management library for POSIX-based operating systems"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lysator.liu.se/liboop/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8b54f38ccbd44feb80ab90e01af8b700"
 SRC_URI = "http://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/liboop/liboop-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb
index dc2cc892f..31f90ee8b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ make using PKCS"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/OpenSC/libp11"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/OpenSC/libp11/issues"
 SECTION = "Development/Libraries"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fad9b3332be894bab9bc501572864b29"
 DEPENDS = "libtool openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb
index 476526416..1940864a2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "raw image decoder"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1 | CDDL-1.0"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only | CDDL-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=74c9dffdc42805f9c0de2f97df6031fc"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb
index 337780789..15e1ee243 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "base library for low-level IEEE 1394 accesses"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libraries#libraw1394"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 SRC_URI = "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/ieee1394/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb
index 1dc4a072c..ccc68967b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Remote delta-compression library."
 AUTHOR = "Martin Pool, Andrew Tridgell, Donovan Baarda, Adam Schubert"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/librsync/librsync.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb
index a98f32be4..b23867189 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A Library to Access SMI MIB Information"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & tcl"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & TCL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3ad3076f9332343a21636cfd351f05b7"
 SRC_URI = "https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/${BPN}/download/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_0.8.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_0.8.2.bb
index 6c943bedc..42b9d7e04 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_0.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsoc/libsoc_0.8.2.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "libsoc is a C library to interface with common peripherals (gpio,
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/jackmitch/libsoc"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=e0bfebea12a718922225ba987b2126a5"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig python3-dir
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb
index 63be2ac06..c7e9c3320 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Multiplatform C library implementing the SSHv2 and SSHv1 protocol"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libssh.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=dabb4958b830e5df11d2b0ed8ea255a0"
 DEPENDS = "zlib openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libteam/libteam_1.31.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libteam/libteam_1.31.bb
index e43d3e0da..ad8438901 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libteam/libteam_1.31.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libteam/libteam_1.31.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Library for controlling team network device"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libteam.org/"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 DEPENDS = "libnl libdaemon jansson"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liburing/liburing_2.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liburing/liburing_2.1.bb
index f519bf236..90efa573f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/liburing/liburing_2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/liburing/liburing_2.1.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/axboe/liburing"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1 | MIT"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only | MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=41;endline=44;md5=d51b5805e2a675685e6a66ca50904cf9"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/axboe/liburing.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusb/libusb-compat_0.1.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusb/libusb-compat_0.1.7.bb
index 94d833aa3..5ab08f6e5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusb/libusb-compat_0.1.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusb/libusb-compat_0.1.7.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libusb.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://www.libusb.org/report"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=f2ac5f3ac4835e8f91324a26a590a423"
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbg/libusbg_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbg/libusbg_git.bb
index 3330e0396..716d9c4ce 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbg/libusbg_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbg/libusbg_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "USB Gadget Configfs Library"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                    file://COPYING.LGPL;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbgx/libusbgx_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbgx/libusbgx_git.bb
index d4bb9bf69..023f7bfa6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbgx/libusbgx_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libusbgx/libusbgx_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "USB Gadget neXt Configfs Library"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                    file://COPYING.LGPL;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libutempter/libutempter.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libutempter/libutempter.bb
index b178a92fe..5c05271d1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libutempter/libutempter.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libutempter/libutempter.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This library provides interface for terminal emulators such as \
 screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files."
 HOMEPAGE = "ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/utempter"
 SECTION = "System Environment/Libraries"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & GPLv2+ & LGPLv2 & MIT"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.0-only & MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 SRCREV = "3ef74fff310f09e2601e241b9f042cd39d591018"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/links/links.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/links/links.inc
index d6aa2d2d4..d772d54af 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/links/links.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/links/links.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Links is graphics and text mode WWW \
 browser, similar to Lynx."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://links.twibright.com/"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b0c80473f97008e42e29a9f80fcc55ff"
 DEPENDS = "jpeg libpng flex openssl zlib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lio-utils/lio-utils_4.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lio-utils/lio-utils_4.1.bb
index 15acdf51a..48be8dfa9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lio-utils/lio-utils_4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lio-utils/lio-utils_4.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "lio-utils"
 DESCRIPTION = "a simple low-level configuration tool set for the Target+iSCSI (LIO)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Lio-utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://debian/copyright;md5=c3ea231a32635cbb5debedf3e88aa3df"
 PV = "4.1+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lockdev/lockdev_1.0.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lockdev/lockdev_1.0.3.bb
index 9d8800ebd..d84041ce6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lockdev/lockdev_1.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lockdev/lockdev_1.0.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Locking devices library"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="file://LICENSE;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 PE = "1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4c/log4c_1.2.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4c/log4c_1.2.4.bb
index ef7ad847a..7d9b9d50f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4c/log4c_1.2.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4c/log4c_1.2.4.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Log4c is a C library for flexible logging to files, syslog and other destinations"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://log4c.sourceforge.net"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb
index c6f9404d6..d9a55dd76 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A library of C++ classes for flexible logging to files, syslog, IDSA and other destinations."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/log4cpp/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
 SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc
index cccc041bc..0c593b204 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.sourceware.org/lvm2/"
 SECTION = "utils"
 DESCRIPTION = "LVM2 is a set of utilities to manage logical volumes in Linux."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=12713b4d9386533feeb07d6e4831765a \
                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb
index 3467d2898..ccc21f418 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "mbuffer is a tool for buffering data streams with a large set of unique features."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SECTION = "console/network"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb
index 8241bd234..d440a53d8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=30;md5=94c18755082a2da9c9cf97cba3ad47d6"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-test_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-test_git.bb
index cfceaa174..f4f1b37d7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-test_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-test_git.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "The MCE test suite is a collection of tools and test scripts for
 testing the Linux RAS related features, including CPU/Memory error \
 containment and recovery, ACPI/APEI support etc."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git;protocol=git;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mcelog_175.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mcelog_175.bb
index c66dd0f97..bbe81a920 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mcelog_175.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mcelog_175.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mcelog.git;protocol=http;;
 SRCREV = "7b776a8c005b60572f49797e81287540f99fff1f"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.md;md5=74bb47b9a68850cb398665cf78b31de6"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb
index eaedf4a39..fa51e0541 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ causal actions in error situations."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mmonit.com/monit/"
-LICENSE = "AGPL-3.0"
+LICENSE = "AGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ea116a7defaf0e93b3bb73b2a34a3f51 \
                    file://libmonit/COPYING;md5=2405f1c59ed1bf3714cebdb40162ce92"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb
index da8ea35d2..371281d6e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Mscgen is a small program that parses Message Sequence Chart descriptions and produces PNG, SVG, EPS or server side image maps (ismaps) as the output."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b1e6a340187c1cf716513439d07c1d79"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/software/${BPN}-src-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.8.4.bb
index 69fd9dfde..c0c4412c7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/multipath-tools/multipath-tools_0.8.4.bb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ DEPENDS = "libdevmapper \
           json-c \
          "
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 SRC_URI = "git://git.opensvc.com/multipath-tools/.git;protocol=http;branch=master \
           file://multipathd.oe \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nano/nano_6.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nano/nano_6.2.bb
index 3c73bfbf7..0be022467 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nano/nano_6.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nano/nano_6.2.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the \
 Pico text editor."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.nano-editor.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses file"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.2.bb
index 5f120e9a7..646a9eca1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/neon/neon_0.30.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "An HTTP and WebDAV client library with a C interface"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.webdav.org/neon/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/COPYING.LIB;md5=f30a9716ef3762e3467a2f62bf790f0a \
                    file://src/ne_utils.h;beginline=1;endline=20;md5=2caca609538eddaa6f6adf120a218037"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nmon/nmon_16m.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nmon/nmon_16m.bb
index 723da85d0..d4a357cea 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nmon/nmon_16m.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nmon/nmon_16m.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "nmon performance monitor"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://nmon.sf.net"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Documentation.txt;md5=dbb13658cf55d687c4f2ff771a696d4a"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
 DEPENDS:append:libc-musl = " bsd-headers"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.29.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.29.bb
index 1bf6811b7..f224bcd34 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.29.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nspr/nspr_4.29.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Netscape Portable Runtime Library"
 HOMEPAGE =  "http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0 | MPL-2.0 | LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only | MPL-2.0 | LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://configure.in;beginline=3;endline=6;md5=90c2fdee38e45d6302abcfe475c8b5c5 \
                    file://Makefile.in;beginline=4;endline=38;md5=beda1dbb98a515f557d3e58ef06bca99"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.74.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.74.bb
index 8d40e2c93..333bbdfef 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.74.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/nss/nss_3.74.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 DEPENDS = "sqlite3 nspr zlib nss-native"
 DEPENDS:class-native = "sqlite3-native nspr-native zlib-native"
-LICENSE = "(MPL-2.0 & MIT) | (MPL-2.0 & GPL-2.0+ & MIT) | (MPL-2.0 & LGPL-2.1+ & MIT)"
+LICENSE = "(MPL-2.0 & MIT) | (MPL-2.0 & GPL-2.0-or-later & MIT) | (MPL-2.0 & LGPL-2.1-or-later & MIT)"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://nss/COPYING;md5=3b1e88e1b9c0b5a4b2881d46cce06a18 \
                    file://nss/lib/freebl/mpi/doc/LICENSE;md5=491f158d09d948466afce85d6f1fe18f \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/openct/openct_0.6.20.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/openct/openct_0.6.20.bb
index 075373563..a873da633 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/openct/openct_0.6.20.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/openct/openct_0.6.20.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SRC_URI = " \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a1da3358ab798f1cb9232f1dbababc21"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "6cd3e2933d29eb1f875c838ee58b8071fd61f0ec8ed5922a86c01c805d181a68"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LGPL-2.1;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 inherit systemd
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensc/opensc_0.22.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensc/opensc_0.22.0.bb
index f1ac7dff1..f8b4af0c4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensc/opensc_0.22.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensc/opensc_0.22.0.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ eID cards have also been confirmed to work."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/"
 SECTION = "System Environment/Libraries"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=cb8aedd3bced19bd8026d96a8b6876d7"
 #v0.21.0
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensync/wbxml2_0.10.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensync/wbxml2_0.10.8.bb
index 3d6bd2a4f..1c5a18e86 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensync/wbxml2_0.10.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opensync/wbxml2_0.10.8.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "WBXML parsing and encoding library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libwbxml.opensync.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c1128ee5341ccd5927d8bafe4b6266e1"
 DEPENDS = "expat"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/p910nd/p910nd_0.97.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/p910nd/p910nd_0.97.bb
index 45aa0d4ac..a27edb141 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/p910nd/p910nd_0.97.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/p910nd/p910nd_0.97.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A small network printer daemon for embedded situations that passes the job directly to the printer"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://p910nd.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b"
 PR = "r2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcp/pcp.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcp/pcp.inc
index 37b6c45f1..97a9095b9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcp/pcp.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcp/pcp.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "System-level performance monitoring and performance management"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pcp.io"
 SECTION =  "Applications/System"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=37ab75b580d5aad4ada04260efa3702f \
                    "
 COMPATIBLE_HOST:libc-musl = "null"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.9.0.bb
index d90dd4304..9ae091a09 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-lite/pcsc-lite_1.9.0.bb
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 SUMMARY = "PC/SC Lite smart card framework and applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LICENSE:${PN} = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LICENSE:${PN}-lib = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LICENSE:${PN}-doc = "BSD-3-Clause"
 LICENSE:${PN}-dev = "BSD-3-Clause"
-LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv3+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-dbg = "BSD-3-Clause & GPL-3.0-or-later"
-LICENSE:${PN}-spy = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-spy = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
-LICENSE:${PN}-spy-dev = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE:${PN}-spy-dev = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=628c01ba985ecfa21677f5ee2d5202f6"
 SRC_URI = "\
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-tools/pcsc-tools_1.5.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-tools/pcsc-tools_1.5.8.bb
index 19654f15b..1600bbf94 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-tools/pcsc-tools_1.5.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pcsc-tools/pcsc-tools_1.5.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Some tools to be used with smart cards and PC/SC"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://ludovic.rousseau.free.fr/softwares/pcsc-tools"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/LudovicRousseau/pcsc-tools;protocol=https;branch=master"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/picocom/picocom_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/picocom/picocom_git.bb
index 801300e70..55dc29271 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/picocom/picocom_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/picocom/picocom_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Lightweight and minimal dumb-terminal emulation program"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/npat-efault/picocom"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=3000e4830620e310fe65c0eb69df9e8a"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/funyahoo-plusplus_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/funyahoo-plusplus_git.bb
index 6c7802e18..ad6a7501c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/funyahoo-plusplus_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/funyahoo-plusplus_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Protocol plugin for New Yahoo (2016) for Adium, Pidgin, Miranda and Telepathy IM Framework"
 SECTION = "webos/services"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=84dcc94da3adb52b53ae4fa38fe49e5d"
 DEPENDS = "pidgin json-glib glib-2.0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/icyque_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/icyque_git.bb
index 2f415de3d..fe75415de 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/icyque_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/icyque_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "WIM Protocol plugin for ICQ for Adium, Pidgin, Miranda and Telepathy IM Framework"
 SECTION = "webos/services"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 DEPENDS = "pidgin json-glib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libgnt_2.14.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libgnt_2.14.1.bb
index 2450d3196..d17a62306 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libgnt_2.14.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libgnt_2.14.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "GNT: The GLib Ncurses Toolkit"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c9a1abacd0166f595a9fbe6afb1f0d5e"
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 ncurses libxml2 glib-2.0-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libotr_4.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libotr_4.1.1.bb
index c70124421..d9e0e1caa 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libotr_4.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/libotr_4.1.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "(OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=92fe174bad6da3763f6e9e9eaff6df24"
 DEPENDS = "libgcrypt libgpg-error"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-otr_4.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-otr_4.0.2.bb
index 80fb23e6a..326c5bfc5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-otr_4.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-otr_4.0.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "(OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=92fe174bad6da3763f6e9e9eaff6df24"
 DEPENDS = "libgcrypt libotr pidgin gtk+ intltool-native glib-2.0 glib-2.0-native"
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.25.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.25.0.bb
index 3752c0501..c0e1790ec 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.25.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin-sipe_1.25.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Protocol plugin for Office 365/Lync/OCS for Adium, Pidgin, Miranda and Telepathy IM Framework"
 SECTION = "webos/services"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 DEPENDS = "pidgin gmime intltool-native glib-2.0-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin_2.14.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin_2.14.2.bb
index 17a2adfc1..14b1aaf01 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin_2.14.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/pidgin_2.14.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "multi-protocol instant messaging client"
 SECTION = "x11/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 DEPENDS = "python3 virtual/libintl intltool-native libxml2 gconf glib-2.0-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/purple-skypeweb_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/purple-skypeweb_git.bb
index a29a445c9..96b97b674 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/purple-skypeweb_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pidgin/purple-skypeweb_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Skype protocol plug-in for libpurple"
 SECTION = "webos/services"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://skypeweb/gpl3.txt;md5=d90260d32cef39f3c8d6c0f05d3adb8e"
 DEPENDS = "pidgin json-glib glib-2.0 zlib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pngcheck/pngcheck_2.3.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pngcheck/pngcheck_2.3.0.bb
index 9f617ecda..19da947d0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pngcheck/pngcheck_2.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pngcheck/pngcheck_2.3.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngcheck.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://gpl/COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 DEPENDS = "zlib libpng"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler-data_0.4.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler-data_0.4.11.bb
index 136061798..b0c0869a0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler-data_0.4.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler-data_0.4.11.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Encoding files for Poppler"
 DESCRIPTION = "Encoding files for use with poppler that enable poppler to \
               correctly render CJK and Cyrrilic."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://poppler.freedesktop.org/"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv2 & GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPL-2.0-only & GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=96287d49ec274d9c3222b5f966c132fd \
                    file://COPYING.adobe;md5=a790726a74164c30b5de1ef93fd69e99 \
                    file://COPYING.gpl2;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler_22.02.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler_22.02.0.bb
index 2954a89b8..a53b3fe65 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler_22.02.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/poppler/poppler_22.02.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://poppler.freedesktop.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SRC_URI = "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/${BP}.tar.xz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pps-tools/pps-tools_1.0.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pps-tools/pps-tools_1.0.3.bb
index 344dbcaaf..65c06c1bd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pps-tools/pps-tools_1.0.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pps-tools/pps-tools_1.0.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "User-space tools for LinuxPPS"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linuxpps.org"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 SRCREV = "c50cb7183e252b47308fa22f420e0a877277aa29"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/procmail/procmail_3.22.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/procmail/procmail_3.22.bb
index 6160733b3..ba268de0a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/procmail/procmail_3.22.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/procmail/procmail_3.22.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.ring.gr.jp/archives/net/mail/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "1678ea99b973eb77eda4ecf6acae53f1"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "087c75b34dd33d8b9df5afe9e42801c9395f4bf373a784d9bc97153b0062e117"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0 & Artistic-1.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & Artistic-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a71e50e197a992c862379e576e669757 \
    file://Artistic;md5=505e00d03c3428cde21b17b2a386590e"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pxaregs/pxaregs_1.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pxaregs/pxaregs_1.14.bb
index 30c41fffb..240583911 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/pxaregs/pxaregs_1.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/pxaregs/pxaregs_1.14.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tool to display and modify PXA registers at runtime"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://pxaregs.c;endline=12;md5=668d061b7637acc68cb8071c9be372e6"
 AUTHOR = "Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mn-logistik.de/unsupported/pxa250/"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/raptor2/raptor2_2.0.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/raptor2/raptor2_2.0.15.bb
index dd00c14f7..577c6ee00 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/raptor2/raptor2_2.0.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/raptor2/raptor2_2.0.15.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Library for parsing and serializing RDF syntaxes"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 | LGPLv2.1 | Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only | LGPL-2.1-only | Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
    file://LICENSE.txt;md5=b840e5ae3aeb897f45b473341348cd9c \
    file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/rdfind/rdfind_1.4.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/rdfind/rdfind_1.4.1.bb
index 42f2064fd..64ae62a2d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/rdfind/rdfind_1.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/rdfind/rdfind_1.4.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fa22e16ebbe6638b2bd253338fbded9f"
 DEPENDS = "nettle autoconf-archive"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/remmina/remmina_1.4.24.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/remmina/remmina_1.4.24.bb
index 817b5118e..23cafa7e4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/remmina/remmina_1.4.24.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/remmina/remmina_1.4.24.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A feature rich Remote Desktop Application written in GTK+"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://remmina.org"
 SECTION = "Support"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & openssl"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & OpenSSL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=dab7215512044d49037272ce1ac4ea8f file://LICENSE.OpenSSL;md5=c1eb3cee0a4dea27503c531267a69769"
 DEPENDS = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/rsnapshot/rsnapshot_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/rsnapshot/rsnapshot_git.bb
index 2887f4d0b..2203663c1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/rsnapshot/rsnapshot_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/rsnapshot/rsnapshot_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.rsnapshot.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/rsnapshot/"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=892f569a555ba9c07a568a7c0c4fa63a"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} = "rsync \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/satyr/satyr_0.39.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/satyr/satyr_0.39.bb
index 732a1440e..32f27f5cb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/satyr/satyr_0.39.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/satyr/satyr_0.39.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ failure processing, analysis, and reporting supporting kernel space, user \
 space, Python, and Java programs"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/abrt/satyr"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 inherit autotools-brokensep python3native pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/pty-forward-native.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/pty-forward-native.bb
index 87d9c5290..71588abd3 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/pty-forward-native.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/pty-forward-native.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Receive a forwarded serial from serial-forward and provide a PTY"
 AUTHOR = "Holger 'Zecke' Freyther"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 SRCREV = "00dbec2636ae0385ad028587e20e446272ff97ec"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/serial-forward_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/serial-forward_git.bb
index dcad8f710..2eef1db4b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/serial-forward_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/serial-utils/serial-forward_git.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Forward a serial using TCP/IP"
 AUTHOR = "Holger 'Zecke' Freyther'"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07"
 SECTION = "console/devel"
 SRCREV = "07c6fdede0870edc37a8d51d033b6e7e29aa7c91"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/sg3-utils/sg3-utils_1.45.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/sg3-utils/sg3-utils_1.45.bb
index 3d07c01f0..ac12f9561 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/sg3-utils/sg3-utils_1.45.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/sg3-utils/sg3-utils_1.45.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "This package contains low level utilities for devices that use th
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html"
 SECTION = "console/admin"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & BSD-2-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & BSD-2-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f90da7fc52172599dbf082d7620f18ca"
 SRC_URI = "http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils-${PV}.tgz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/sharutils/sharutils_4.15.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/sharutils/sharutils_4.15.2.bb
index 381958051..bd2776e1b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/sharutils/sharutils_4.15.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/sharutils/sharutils_4.15.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "This is the set of GNU shar utilities."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE="GPLv3+"
+LICENSE="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 inherit gettext autotools update-alternatives
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/smarty/smarty_4.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/smarty/smarty_4.1.0.bb
index 85676e490..18753db2b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/smarty/smarty_4.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/smarty/smarty_4.1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "the compiling PHP template engine"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.smarty.net/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2c0f216b2120ffc367e20f2b56df51b3"
 DEPENDS += "php"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/spitools/spitools_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/spitools/spitools_git.bb
index 8302576f4..e1b9302a9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/spitools/spitools_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/spitools/spitools_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "This package contains some simple command line tools to help using Linux spidev devices"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/cpb-/spi-tools"
 AUTHOR = "Christophe BLAESS"
-LICENSE="GPLv2"
+LICENSE="GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=8c16666ae6c159876a0ba63099614381"
 BPV = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/srecord/srecord_1.64.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/srecord/srecord_1.64.bb
index 6f9418b71..85deabde1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/srecord/srecord_1.64.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/srecord/srecord_1.64.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A collection of powerful tools for manipulating EPROM load files."
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & LGPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later & LGPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=8dfcbf2f0a144b97f0931b6394debea7"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/stm32flash/stm32flash_0.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/stm32flash/stm32flash_0.6.bb
index 195c0f5c2..b86b047fc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/stm32flash/stm32flash_0.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/stm32flash/stm32flash_0.6.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Open source flash program for STM32 using the ST serial bootloader"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/stm32flash/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://sourceforge.net/p/stm32flash/tickets/"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://gpl-2.0.txt;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb
index ef30fd707..92b66e9ce 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ideal for firewalled environments. \
 "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=189c3826d32deaf83ad8d0d538a10023"
 # util-linux added to get libuuid
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb
index e71a8b436..db4c395c5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "a graphical user interface that allows the user to \
 change the default keyboard of the system"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "https://fedorahosted.org/releases/s/y/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.bz2"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c267db0ee7a2131ba418399dc17f9e72"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb
index 0588e9be7..25d72006f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tools of dm-thin device-mapper"
 DESCRIPTION = "A suite of tools for manipulating the metadata of the dm-thin device-mapper target."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
index 9f75cf047..22cbcc0f2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Records are organized in hash table, B+ tree, or fixed-length array."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
 SRC_URI = "http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/toscoterm/toscoterm_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/toscoterm/toscoterm_git.bb
index efc2795d5..b9f26051a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/toscoterm/toscoterm_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/toscoterm/toscoterm_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "A very small and simple terminal emulator"
 SECTION = "x11/applications"
 DEPENDS = "vte9"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://main.c;start_line=5;end_line=16;md5=9ae4bf20caf291afa94530026bd15229"
 # 0.2 version
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tree/tree_2.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tree/tree_2.0.2.bb
index ec68db245..26b6074ed 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tree/tree_2.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tree/tree_2.0.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A recursive directory listing command"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 SRC_URI = "http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/src/${BP}.tgz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/uchardet/uchardet_0.0.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/uchardet/uchardet_0.0.7.bb
index 4a595e643..9087c8b29 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/uchardet/uchardet_0.0.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/uchardet/uchardet_0.0.7.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "uchardet is an encoding detector library"
-LICENSE = "MPLv1.1"
+LICENSE = "MPL-1.1"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6ecda54f6f525388d71d6b3cd92f7474"
 inherit cmake
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.9.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.9.4.bb
index ec13cfa26..3de555723 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.9.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/udisks/udisks2_2.9.4.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "udisks provides dbus interfaces for disks and storage devices"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=dd79f6dbbffdbc8e86b086a8f0c0ef43"
 DEPENDS = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/uhubctl/uhubctl_2.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/uhubctl/uhubctl_2.4.0.bb
index e8587ea26..b40fa5255 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/uhubctl/uhubctl_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/uhubctl/uhubctl_2.4.0.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl/issues"
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRCREV = "014b55ac5d1d7fb46a8f1eefe9fc3b87ea65a75f"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/uim/uim_1.8.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/uim/uim_1.8.8.bb
index 18b455ce2..fca914ed6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/uim/uim_1.8.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/uim/uim_1.8.8.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A multilingual user input method library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://uim.freedesktop.org/"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ab2826b41ca0ff4030d38cc39791d1c8"
 SECTION = "inputmethods"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/unixodbc/unixodbc_2.3.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/unixodbc/unixodbc_2.3.7.bb
index 5e7c603f8..b91c22e91 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/unixodbc/unixodbc_2.3.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/unixodbc/unixodbc_2.3.7.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "unixODBC is an Open Source ODBC sub-system and an ODBC SDK \
 for Linux, Mac OSX, and UNIX."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.unixodbc.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d7b37bf80a3df5a65b355433ae36d206"
 DEPENDS = "libtool readline"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/upower/upower_0.99.13.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/upower/upower_0.99.13.bb
index 105976316..55a735482 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/upower/upower_0.99.13.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/upower/upower_0.99.13.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "UPower is an abstraction for enumerating power devices, listening to device events and querying history and statistics. "
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0de8fbf1d97a140d1d93b9f14dcfbf08"
 DEPENDS = "intltool-native libusb1 libgudev glib-2.0 dbus-glib"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch-data_20191128.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch-data_20191128.bb
index 291fad5e6..351fe44d7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch-data_20191128.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch-data_20191128.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Data files for usbmodeswitch"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 inherit allarch
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch_2.6.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch_2.6.0.bb
index a6282a57c..1474ca615 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch_2.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/usb-modeswitch/usb-modeswitch_2.6.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A mode switching tool for controlling 'flip flop' (multiple device) USB gear"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=091556bd6d0154cd4c2d17a1bfc7380a"
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-evemu_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-evemu_git.bb
index d06f6702f..a6d09f69e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-evemu_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-evemu_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Kernel evdev device emulation"
 DESCRIPTION = "The evemu library and tools are used to describe devices, record data, create devices and replay data from kernel evdev devices. "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://bitmath.org/code/evemu/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949"
 inherit autotools
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-frame_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-frame_git.bb
index 12231f6a9..3b1cf60c2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-frame_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-frame_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Touch Frame Library"
 DESCRIPTION = "The frame library and tools are used to handle touch frames, i.e., collections of tracked contacts. Bindings for mtdev and XI2.1."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://bitmath.org/code/frame/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2f31b266d3440dd7ee50f92cf67d8e6c"
 DEPENDS += "mtdev utouch-evemu"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-mtview_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-mtview_git.bb
index b4322ab3d..e348e39bb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-mtview_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/utouch/utouch-mtview_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Multitouch viewer"
 DESCRIPTION = "mtview is a small X application that shows a graphical view of your MT-enabled hardware. It uses mtdev."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://bitmath.org/code/mtview/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4c61b8950dc1aab4d2aa7c2ae6b1cfb3"
 inherit autotools pkgconfig features_check
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/vboxguestdrivers/vboxguestdrivers_6.1.32.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/vboxguestdrivers/vboxguestdrivers_6.1.32.bb
index 4fc4a2c77..a8cf32658 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/vboxguestdrivers/vboxguestdrivers_6.1.32.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/vboxguestdrivers/vboxguestdrivers_6.1.32.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "VirtualBox Linux Guest Drivers"
 SECTION = "core"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/${VBOX_NAME}/COPYING;md5=e197d5641bb35b29d46ca8c4bf7f2660"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
index c16178198..6b35d71a5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Open-source binary diff, differential compression tools, \
 HOMEPAGE = "http://xdelta.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jmacd/xdelta.git;branch=release3_1_apl;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb
index 39ba4ec71..75d7f2748 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage user directories like the desktop folder and the music folder"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb
index becf99148..76aea6f41 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "X.Org X cvt"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://linux.die.net/man/1/cvt"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5df87950af51ac2c5822094553ea1880"
 DEPENDS += "pixman-native xorgproto-native libxrandr-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
index d956a841a..17084f830 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ intensity sensors. It supports EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, \
 Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, QR Code and SQ Code"
 SECTION = "graphics"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=5e9ee833a2118adc7d8b5ea38e5b1cef"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/mchehab/zbar.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
index f61848e7c..e86b3f82d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Zile is lossy Emacs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://zile.sourceforge.net/"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses bdwgc"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/zile/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb
index f4871ee77..be8112565 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cppunit/cppunit_1.15.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "CppUnit is the C++ port of the famous JUnit framework for unit testing. Test output is in XML for automatic testing and GUI based for supervised tests. "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/cppunit"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b0e9ef921ff780eb328bdcaeebec3269"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.0.bb
index bc595c80c..229aee6d7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cukinia/cukinia_0.6.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Linux firmware validation framework"
 DESCRIPTION = "Cukinia is designed to help Linux-based embedded firmware \
 developers run simple system-level validation tests on their firmware." 
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/cukinia"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.GPLv3;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                    file://LICENSE;md5=e3fc50a88d0a364313df4b21ef20c29e"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cunit/cunit_2.1-3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cunit/cunit_2.1-3.bb
index c71744e3c..9a0c18dee 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cunit/cunit_2.1-3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cunit/cunit_2.1-3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "CUnit is a C framework for unit testing. Test output supports comandline and GUI results reporting"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cunit.sourceforge.net"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 SECTION = "libs"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7734aa853b85d6f935466f081490ddbb"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cxxtest/cxxtest_4.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cxxtest/cxxtest_4.4.bb
index b87972f41..ef1b6e537 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/cxxtest/cxxtest_4.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/cxxtest/cxxtest_4.4.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "CxxTest is a unit testing framework for C++ that is similar in spirit to JUnit, CppUnit, and xUnit."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://cxxtest.com/"
 SECTION = "devel"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
 SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cxxtest/cxxtest/${PV}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb
index eb6a34f30..daf9dc383 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/evtest/evtest_1.34.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Simple tool for input event debugging"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/evtest/"
 AUTHOR = "Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 DEPENDS = "libxml2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/fbtest/fb-test_1.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/fbtest/fb-test_1.1.0.bb
index 14ab41b14..6082ea257 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/fbtest/fb-test_1.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/fbtest/fb-test_1.1.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Test suite for Linux framebuffer"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 SRCREV = "063ec650960c2d79ac51f5c5f026cb05343a33e2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/fwts/fwts_21.06.00.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/fwts/fwts_21.06.00.bb
index 0480adb96..0dcefcbb9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/fwts/fwts_21.06.00.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/fwts/fwts_21.06.00.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Firmware testsuite"
 DESCRIPTION = "The tool fwts comprises of over fifty tests that are designed to exercise and test different aspects of a machine's firmware. Many of these tests need super user access to read BIOS data and ACPI tables, so the tool requires running with super user privileges (e.g. with sudo)."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/fwts"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/main.c;beginline=1;endline=16;md5=31da590f3e9f3bd34dcdb9e4db568519"
 SRC_URI = "http://fwts.ubuntu.com/release/fwts-V${PV}.tar.gz;subdir=${BP} \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-test/pm-qa/pm-qa_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-test/pm-qa/pm-qa_git.bb
index 18ef371e3..fc21e6192 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-test/pm-qa/pm-qa_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-test/pm-qa/pm-qa_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Utilities for testing Power Management"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/PowerManagement/Resources/TestSuite/PmQa"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 PV = "0.5.2"
author	Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>	2022-03-04 00:44:20 -0800
committer	Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>	2022-03-04 17:41:45 -0800
commit	14c7d8a0d7cb843ac8b0d25cc4170fa640ac1295 (patch)
tree	5b71e3261028cf7043840154af1a9ae140b8a61e
parent	66298242119cf805e757b9af8a7ceaf39c05d69a (diff)
download	meta-openembedded-14c7d8a0d7cb843ac8b0d25cc4170fa640ac1295.tar.gz