147 files changed, 193 insertions, 193 deletions
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/anthy/anthy_9100h.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/anthy/anthy_9100h.bb
index 3ca394ac36..2a6cfb5715 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 819303c57e..35540b3b8f 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 d83ba493e0..d46f3888bd 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 f8282583db..3ccd9a1371 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 5f93d8df09..a1a28a8921 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 3e5af2a29c..6646c8bfc1 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 e3cb7cef19..7b260f177b 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 09e600c948..41962cd63c 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 01a02d4962..0936b1ae19 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 d0a86184a7..92c05fe065 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 5a1e4aac5f..7f80a30535 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 6f8c86a169..3cc870481f 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 cac2b4fd61..6565097334 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 0cbc32ff3c..d34397c12a 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 2b9a2f8085..f5f542c541 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 ca1a2457ff..33b31a2b1e 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 193cd00123..b78dc5e450 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-${PV}.tar.xz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb
index f81ed670c4..eed0ad1b93 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/enca/enca_1.19.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://cihar.com/software/enca/"
 DEPENDS += "gettext-native"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=24b9569831c46d4818450b55282476b4"
 SRC_URI = "https://dl.cihar.com/enca/enca-${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 8dcc9789c4..0dc61c1c30 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 08710aa1da..4501b082de 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 d5d9e62ff2..31afe78e45 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 c65d72cd8f..e7eaf03921 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 969a6d23a3..9870ee7379 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:${PN} = "fbset-modes"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native flex-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb
index 13541bce46..cb45e2b91f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fftw/fftw_3.3.10.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "FFTW"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc
index 2eaf491b8e..b1bc83578f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/fltk/fltk.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.fltk.org"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2 & FLTK"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-only & FLTK"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f6b26344a24a941a01a5b0826e80b5ca"
 SRC_URI = " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb
index 118e3c50c8..52c1016335 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/gengetopt/gengetopt_2.23.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Gengetopt is a tool to write command line option parsing code for
 SECTION = "utils"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ff95bfe019feaf92f524b73dd79e76eb"
 SRC_URI = "${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 ac46b5676c..2aab68e6a5 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 7e353d5af3..cbb51d3477 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 b94bdad3a7..0513f0dca0 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 40613930b5..0dd197efa4 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 27d5c5fef8..b4be39feb5 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 9106abec25..1fef9789c5 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 d8e241ed06..4fe70982a5 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 9e8583be1c..047acf28db 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 f5813dfcb7..8d4dd5254e 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 6c2ae5e5a1..6488897b61 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 ac23630d01..e01c0897bb 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 38ba91552c..4e6bfbbc27 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 674736a68a..ed0bf337b5 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-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb
index c501b1534d..47062cca52 100755
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lcov/lcov_1.14.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tool gcov. It collects gcov data for multiple source files and creates \
 HTML pages containing the source code annotated with coverage information. \
 It also adds overview pages for easy navigation within the file structure. \
 LCOV supports statement, function and branch coverage measurement."
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libatasmart/libatasmart_0.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libatasmart/libatasmart_0.19.bb
index 4ca41cbcd2..f747ecbf72 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 cbf6be4765..154973254d 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 37e2376b16..20fe910ebe 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 35083847cb..81453fb888 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 e5a145ab22..16fe557f76 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 9682f7a8e2..1cae76b422 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 ff61dd8fd7..2ebf2757d7 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 5ab484d8a5..2f52a0f3bd 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 d1cc721ada..f142cb2287 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 51b74ba5b7..35e68b7e24 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 a606f175c6..c208a2090c 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 f33fc0c1c1..2c22838bbf 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 1a5c35a4d2..9130b110a8 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 417a11f502..e639ce59d8 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 78c75460ef..5509b0bb09 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 498764ac83..d4b8170873 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 b1e6da1bbe..21a56264e4 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 8894a867df..7ad88b7402 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-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb
index dc2cc892fe..31f90ee8b0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libp11/libp11_0.4.11.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ make using PKCS"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/OpenSC/libp11"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/OpenSC/libp11/issues"
 SECTION = "Development/Libraries"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fad9b3332be894bab9bc501572864b29"
 DEPENDS = "libtool openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb
index 4765264166..1940864a20 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw/libraw_0.20.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "raw image decoder"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1 | CDDL-1.0"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only | CDDL-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=74c9dffdc42805f9c0de2f97df6031fc"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb
index 337780789d..15e1ee2438 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libraw1394/libraw1394_2.1.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "base library for low-level IEEE 1394 accesses"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libraries#libraw1394"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 SRC_URI = "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/ieee1394/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb
index 1dc4a072ce..ccc68967b9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/librsync/librsync_2.3.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Remote delta-compression library."
 AUTHOR = "Martin Pool, Andrew Tridgell, Donovan Baarda, Adam Schubert"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/librsync/librsync.git;branch=master;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb
index a98f32be48..b238671893 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libsmi/libsmi_0.5.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A Library to Access SMI MIB Information"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & tcl"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & TCL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3ad3076f9332343a21636cfd351f05b7"
 SRC_URI = "https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/${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 6c943bedc1..42b9d7e048 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 63be2ac060..c7e9c3320c 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 e43d3e0dae..ad84389013 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 f519bf2363..90efa573f3 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 94d833aa3a..5ab08f6e50 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 3330e03969..716d9c4ce4 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 d4bb9bf698..023f7bfa69 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 b178a92fe6..5c05271d17 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 d6aa2d2d4e..d772d54aff 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 15acdf51ac..48be8dfa96 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 9d8800ebde..d84041ce63 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 ef7ad847a6..7d9b9d50f8 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}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb
index c6f9404d6e..d9a55dd761 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/log4cpp/log4cpp_1.1.3.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "A library of C++ classes for flexible logging to files, syslog, IDSA and other destinations."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/log4cpp/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
 SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc
index cccc041bc3..0c593b2042 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/lvm2/lvm2.inc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.sourceware.org/lvm2/"
 SECTION = "utils"
 DESCRIPTION = "LVM2 is a set of utilities to manage logical volumes in Linux."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=12713b4d9386533feeb07d6e4831765a \
                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb
index 3467d28988..ccc21f418c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mbuffer/mbuffer_20140310.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "mbuffer is a tool for buffering data streams with a large set of unique features."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 SECTION = "console/network"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb
index 8241bd2342..d440a53d87 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mcelog/mce-inject_git.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_COMMITS = "1"
 DEPENDS = "bison-native"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=30;md5=94c18755082a2da9c9cf97cba3ad47d6"
 S = "${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 cfceaa1743..f4f1b37d78 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 c66dd0f971..bbe81a9207 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 = "${WORKDIR}/git"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb
index eaedf4a39a..fa51e05418 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/monit/monit_5.31.0.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ causal actions in error situations."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://mmonit.com/monit/"
-LICENSE = "AGPL-3.0"
+LICENSE = "AGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ea116a7defaf0e93b3bb73b2a34a3f51 \
                    file://libmonit/COPYING;md5=2405f1c59ed1bf3714cebdb40162ce92"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb
index da8ea35d26..371281d6e4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mscgen/mscgen_0.20.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Mscgen is a small program that parses Message Sequence Chart descriptions and produces PNG, SVG, EPS or server side image maps (ismaps) as the output."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b1e6a340187c1cf716513439d07c1d79"
 SRC_URI = "http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/software/${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 69fd9dfde1..c0c4412c7d 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 3c73bfbf7d..0be022467b 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 5f120e9a78..646a9eca13 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 723da85d0f..d4a357cea0 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 1bf6811b76..f224bcd341 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 8d40e2c939..333bbdfef0 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 075373563c..a873da6339 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 f1ac7dff1c..f8b4af0c4f 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 3d6bd2a4f5..1c5a18e863 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 45aa0d4ac1..a27edb1410 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 37b6c45f18..97a9095b97 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 d90dd43042..9ae091a09a 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 19654f15b1..1600bbf94a 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 801300e707..55dc292710 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 6c7802e18a..ad6a7501c5 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 2f415de3d9..fe75415de2 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 2450d31966..d17a623063 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 c701244219..d9e0e1caa2 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 80fb23e6a9..326c5bfc57 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 3752c0501c..c0e1790ec2 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 17a2adfc14..14b1aaf01c 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 a29a445c90..96b97b6744 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 9f617ecda5..19da947d04 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 1360617985..b0c0869a04 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 2954a89b8e..a53b3fe65b 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 344dbcaafe..65c06c1bd5 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 6160733b3d..ba268de0a5 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 30c41fffbe..2405839110 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 dd00c14f72..577c6ee00a 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 42f2064fd4..64ae62a2d3 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 817b5118e2..23cafa7e48 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 2887f4d0b5..2203663c17 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 732a1440e0..32f27f5cbd 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 87d9c52903..71588abd3f 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 dcad8f7104..2eef1db4bc 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 3d07c01f07..ac12f9561d 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 381958051b..bd2776e1bc 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 85676e4902..18753db2b7 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 8302576f43..e1b9302a98 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 6f9418b718..85deabde17 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 195c0f5c27..b86b047fc1 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}/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb
index ef30fd707b..92b66e9cea 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_3.31.2.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ideal for firewalled environments. \
 "
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=189c3826d32deaf83ad8d0d538a10023"
 # util-linux added to get libuuid
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb
index e71a8b436f..db4c395c56 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/system-config-keyboard/system-config-keyboard_1.4.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "a graphical user interface that allows the user to \
 change the default keyboard of the system"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 SRC_URI = "https://fedorahosted.org/releases/s/y/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.bz2"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c267db0ee7a2131ba418399dc17f9e72"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb
index 0588e9be7b..25d72006fd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/thin-provisioning-tools/thin-provisioning-tools_0.9.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Tools of dm-thin device-mapper"
 DESCRIPTION = "A suite of tools for manipulating the metadata of the dm-thin device-mapper target."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 SECTION = "devel"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
index 9f75cf047d..22cbcc0f2f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/tokyocabinet/tokyocabinet_1.4.48.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Records are organized in hash table, B+ tree, or fixed-length array."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
 SRC_URI = "http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/toscoterm/toscoterm_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/toscoterm/toscoterm_git.bb
index efc2795d58..b9f26051a1 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 ec68db2456..26b6074ed3 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 4a595e6432..9087c8b298 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 ec13cfa26b..3de5557238 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 e8587ea265..b40fa5255c 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 18b455ce21..fca914ed67 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 5e7c603f8e..b91c22e919 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 1059763169..55a7354820 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 291fad5e6c..351fe44d70 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 a6282a57c0..1474ca615e 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 d06f6702f7..a6d09f69e9 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 12231f6a90..3b1cf60c27 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 b4322ab3de..e348e39bba 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 4fc4a2c779..a8cf32658c 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}/${VBOX_NAME}/COPYING;md5=e197d5641bb35b29d46ca8c4bf7f2660"
 DEPENDS = "virtual/kernel"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
index c161781989..6b35d71a55 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Open-source binary diff, differential compression tools, \
 HOMEPAGE = "http://xdelta.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jmacd/xdelta.git;branch=release3_1_apl;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb
index 39ba4ec71f..75d7f27485 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdg-user-dirs/xdg-user-dirs_0.17.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "xdg-user-dirs is a tool to help manage user directories like the desktop folder and the music folder"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 SRC_URI = "http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb
index becf991488..76aea6f41a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/xserver-xorg-cvt/xserver-xorg-cvt-native_1.20.10.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "X.Org X cvt"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://linux.die.net/man/1/cvt"
-LICENSE = "MIT-X"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5df87950af51ac2c5822094553ea1880"
 DEPENDS += "pixman-native xorgproto-native libxrandr-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
index d956a841aa..17084f830e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zbar/zbar_git.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ intensity sensors. It supports EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, \
 Code 93, Code 39, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, QR Code and SQ Code"
 SECTION = "graphics"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=5e9ee833a2118adc7d8b5ea38e5b1cef"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/mchehab/zbar.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
index f61848e7c1..e86b3f82d2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/zile/zile_2.4.15.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Zile is lossy Emacs"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://zile.sourceforge.net/"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses bdwgc"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/zile/${BP}.tar.gz \