26 files changed, 53 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb
index ab3b58d2c9..9709892644 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 SUMMARY = "Recipe with multiple SPDX licenses"
 DESCRIPTION = "Is licensed with multiple SPDX licenses to be used for testing"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-3.0 & LGPL-3.0-only"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only"
diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-ed/selftest-ed_0.5.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-ed/selftest-ed_0.5.bb
index 4a9b94eceb..c5037a4912 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-ed/selftest-ed_0.5.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/selftest-ed/selftest-ed_0.5.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-SUMMARY = "Line-oriented text editor -- selftest GPLv2 version"
+SUMMARY = "Line-oriented text editor -- selftest GPL-2.0-or-later version"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/"
 SECTION = "base"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
diff --git a/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass b/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass
index 7f3b808572..2a62ae7bc8 100644
--- a/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 SECTION ?= "bsp"
 
 # The default inclusion of kernel device tree includes and headers means that
-# device trees built with them are at least GPLv2 (and in some cases dual
-# licensed). Default to GPLv2 if the recipe does not specify a license.
+# device trees built with them are at least GPL-2.0-only (and in some cases dual
+# licensed). Default to GPL-2.0-only if the recipe does not specify a license.
 LICENSE ?= "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ?= "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index dec9867209..68c022248c 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def find_license_files(d):
                                     os.path.join(srcdir, non_generic_lic), None, None))
             non_generic_lics[non_generic_lic] = license_type
         else:
-            # Add explicity avoid of CLOSED license because this isn't generic
+            # Explicitly avoid the CLOSED license because this isn't generic
             if license_type != 'CLOSED':
                 # And here is where we warn people that their licenses are lousy
                 oe.qa.handle_error("license-exists",
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def return_spdx(d, license):
 def canonical_license(d, license):
     """
     Return the canonical (SPDX) form of the license if available (so GPLv3
-    becomes GPL-3.0) or the passed license if there is no canonical form.
+    becomes GPL-3.0-only) or the passed license if there is no canonical form.
     """
     return d.getVarFlag('SPDXLICENSEMAP', license) or license
 
@@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ def expand_wildcard_licenses(d, wildcard_licenses):
     for wld_lic in wildcard_licenses:
         spdxflags = fnmatch.filter(spdxmapkeys, wld_lic)
         licenses += [d.getVarFlag('SPDXLICENSEMAP', flag) for flag in spdxflags]
-        # Assume if we're passed "GPLv3" or "*GPLv3" it means -or-later as well
+        # Assume that if we are passed "GPL-3.0" or "*GPL-3.0", then it means
+        # "-or-later" as well.
         if not wld_lic.endswith(("-or-later", "-only", "*", "+")):
             spdxflags = fnmatch.filter(spdxmapkeys, wld_lic + "+")
             licenses += [d.getVarFlag('SPDXLICENSEMAP', flag) for flag in spdxflags]
diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index 1789da0bb8..feb23a666b 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE[doc] = "Defines additional free disk space created in t
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE[doc] = "Defines the size in Kbytes for the generated image."
 IMAGE_TYPES[doc] = "Specifies the complete list of supported image types by default."
 INC_PR[doc] = "Helps define the recipe revision for recipes that share a common include file."
-INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE[doc] = "Specifies a space-separated list of license names (as they would appear in LICENSE) that should be excluded from the build. Wildcard is supported, such as '*GPLv3'"
+INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE[doc] = "Specifies a space-separated list of license names (as they would appear in LICENSE) that should be excluded from the build. Wildcard is supported, such as '*GPL-3.0*'"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS[doc] = "Prevents the default dependencies, namely the C compiler and standard C library (libc), from being added to DEPENDS."
 INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP[doc] = "If set to "1", causes the build to not strip binaries in resulting packages."
 INHERIT[doc] = "Causes the named class to be inherited at this point during parsing. The variable is only valid in configuration files."
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_014.bb b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_014.bb
index 828eb4d36f..e728f1a190 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_014.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/usbutils/usbutils_014.bb
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ inherit autotools pkgconfig update-alternatives
 ALTERNATIVE:${PN} = "lsusb"
 ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
 
-# The binaries are mostly GPLv2+ apart from lsusb.py which is GPLv2 or v3.
+# The binaries are mostly GPL-2.0-or-later apart from lsusb.py which is
+# GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only.
 LICENSE:${PN} = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LICENSE:${PN}-python = "GPL-2.0-only | GPL-3.0-only"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
index 3e020e6780..9bb5e5861e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/avahi/avahi_0.8.bb
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://avahi.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues"
 SECTION = "network"
 
-# major part is under LGPLv2.1+, but several .dtd, .xsl, initscripts and
-# python scripts are under GPLv2+
+# major part is under LGPL-2.1-or-later, but several .dtd, .xsl, initscripts and
+# python scripts are under GPL-2.0-or-later
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
                     file://avahi-common/address.h;endline=25;md5=b1d1d2cda1c07eb848ea7d6215712d9d \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
index 5328e5ec3c..8a68d647e2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Keytable files and keyboard utilities"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.kbd-project.org/"
 DESCRIPTION = "The kbd project contains tools for managing Linux console (Linux console, virtual terminals, keyboard, etc.) – mainly, what they do is loading console fonts and keyboard maps."
-# everything minus console-fonts is GPLv2+
+# everything minus console-fonts is GPL-2.0-or-later
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=892f569a555ba9c07a568a7c0c4fa63a"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
index 24a3301285..7f2f1a092b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands."
 SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html"
 
-# GPLv2+ (< 6.0), GPLv3+ (>= 6.0)
+# GPL-2.0-or-later (< 6.0), GPL-3.0-or-later (>= 6.0)
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.186.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.186.bb
index f2f098eccb..46ee40cce6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.186.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.186.bb
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 # Package utilities separately
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-binutils libelf libasm libdw libdebuginfod"
 
-# shared libraries are licensed GPLv2 or GPLv3+, binaries GPLv3+
-# according to NEWS file:
+# Shared libraries are licensed GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-or-later, binaries
+# GPL-3.0-or-later. According to NEWS file:
 # "The license is now GPLv2/LGPLv3+ for the libraries and GPLv3+ for stand-alone
 # programs. There is now also a formal CONTRIBUTING document describing how to
 # submit patches."
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
index c39a0caf8a..e9f2cf16e8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require gcc-configure-common.inc
 
 SUMMARY = "Runtime libraries from GCC"
 
-# Over-ride the LICENSE set by gcc-${PV}.inc to remove "& GPLv3"
+# Over-ride the LICENSE set by gcc-${PV}.inc to remove "& GPL-3.0-only"
 # All gcc-runtime packages are now covered by the runtime exception.
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-with-GCC-exception"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/icecc-create-env/icecc-create-env_0.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/icecc-create-env/icecc-create-env_0.1.bb
index ea95588c8c..b716b0245b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/icecc-create-env/icecc-create-env_0.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/icecc-create-env/icecc-create-env_0.1.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "icecc environment setup script"
 DESCRIPTION = "This is a version of the icecc-create-env script that has \
 been modified in order to make it work with OE."
 SECTION = "base"
-# source file has just a "GPL" word, but upstream is GPLv2+.
+# source file has just a "GPL" word, but upstream is GPL-2.0-or-later.
 # most probably just GPL would be a mistake
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://icecc-create-env;beginline=2;endline=5;md5=ae1df3d6a058bfda40b66094c5f6065f"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.2.3.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.2.3.bb
index b950e30b46..6168ee85fc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rsync/rsync_3.2.3.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://rsync.samba.org/"
 DESCRIPTION = "rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer."
 BUGTRACKER = "http://rsync.samba.org/bugzilla.html"
 SECTION = "console/network"
-# GPLv2+ (<< 3.0.0), GPLv3+ (>= 3.0.0)
+# GPL-2.0-or-later (<< 3.0.0), GPL-3.0-or-later (>= 3.0.0)
 # Includes opennsh and xxhash dynamic link exception
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9e5a4f9b3a253d51520617aa54f8eb26"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.16.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.16.bb
index 45c7c2b09c..d046faa4e5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.16.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_5.1.16.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require bash.inc
 
-# GPLv2+ (< 4.0), GPLv3+ (>= 4.0)
+# GPL-2.0-or-later (< 4.0), GPL-3.0-or-later (>= 4.0)
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.9.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.9.0.bb
index 63560a4299..e4ce8ee4eb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/findutils/findutils_4.9.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require findutils.inc
 
-# GPLv2+ (<< 4.2.32), GPLv3+ (>= 4.2.32)
+# GPL-2.0-or-later (<< 4.2.32), GPL-3.0-or-later (>= 4.2.32)
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.1.bb
index 40f994ff94..fe339805d0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.1.1.bb
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/"
 BUGTRACKER  = "bug-gawk@gnu.org"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 
-# gawk <= 3.1.5: GPLv2
-# gawk >= 3.1.6: GPLv3
+# gawk <= 3.1.5: GPL-2.0-only
+# gawk >= 3.1.6: GPL-3.0-only
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
index 15fd665ac8..b32584033b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written
 project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-# change to GPLv3+ in 2007/07. Previous GPLv2 version is 1.3.12
 
 inherit autotools texinfo
 export DEFS="NO_ASM"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.11.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.11.bb
index cff4ed1717..321c9c31a4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.11.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip_1.11.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 require gzip.inc
 
+# change to GPL-3.0-or-later in 2007/07. Previous GPL-2.0-or-later version is
+# 1.3.12
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gzip/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_600.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_600.bb
index 8b715fac6b..9ebe39daab 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_600.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/less/less_600.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ programs. Less offers many features beyond those that more does."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 
-# (GPLv2+ (<< 418), GPLv3+ (>= 418)) | less
+# (GPL-2.0-or-later (<< 418), GPL-3.0-or-later (>= 418)) | less
 # Including email author giving permissing to use BSD
 #
 # From: Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.2.bb
index 6f6e0c98ad..1c2fc8c37a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/mdadm/mdadm_4.2.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Tool for managing software RAID under Linux"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/"
 DESCRIPTION = "mdadm is a Linux utility used to manage and monitor software RAID devices."
 
-# Some files are GPLv2+ while others are GPLv2.
+# Some files are GPL-2.0-only while others are GPL-2.0-or-later.
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
                     file://mdmon.c;beginline=4;endline=18;md5=af7d8444d9c4d3e5c7caac0d9d34039d \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.2.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.2.bb
index 7277727745..081986ef43 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.2.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "https://fedorahosted.org/linux-pam/newticket"
 SECTION = "base"
 # PAM is dual licensed under GPL and BSD.
 # /etc/pam.d comes from Debian libpam-runtime in 2009-11 (at that time
-# libpam-runtime-1.0.1 is GPLv2+), by openembedded
+# libpam-runtime-1.0.1 is GPL-2.0-or-later), by openembedded
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later | BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7eb5c1bf854e8881005d673599ee74d3 \
                     file://libpamc/License;md5=a4da476a14c093fdc73be3c3c9ba8fb3 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb
index c41987d87c..78aa6b20ca 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/xz/xz_5.2.5.bb
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://tukaani.org/xz/"
 DESCRIPTION = "XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with a high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils."
 SECTION = "base"
 
-# The source includes bits of PD, GPLv2, GPLv3, LGPLv2.1+, but the only file
-# which is GPLv3 is an m4 macro which isn't shipped in any of our packages,
-# and the LGPL bits are under lib/, which appears to be used for libgnu, which
-# appears to be used for DOS builds. So we're left with GPLv2+ and PD.
+# The source includes bits of PD, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, LGPL-2.1-or-later, but the
+# only file which is GPL-3.0 is an m4 macro which isn't shipped in any of our
+# packages, and the LGPL bits are under lib/, which appears to be used for
+# libgnu, which appears to be used for DOS builds. So we're left with
+# GPL-2.0-or-later and PD.
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-3.0-with-autoconf-exception & LGPL-2.1-or-later & PD"
 LICENSE:${PN} = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LICENSE:${PN}-dev = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-plugins_1.2.6.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-plugins_1.2.6.bb
index 76f37bfd59..c435f61d4c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-plugins_1.2.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-plugins_1.2.6.bb
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://alsa-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking"
 SECTION = "multimedia"
 
-# The primary license of alsa-plugins is LGPLv2.1.
+# The primary license of alsa-plugins is LGPL-2.1-only.
 #
-# m4/attributes.m4 is licensed under GPLv2+. m4/attributes.m4 is part of the
-# build system, and doesn't affect the licensing of the build result.
+# m4/attributes.m4 is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later. m4/attributes.m4 is part
+# of the build system, and doesn't affect the licensing of the build result.
 #
-# The samplerate plugin source code is licensed under GPLv2+ to be consistent
-# with the libsamplerate license. However, if the licensee has a commercial
-# license for libsamplerate, the samplerate plugin may be used under the terms
-# of LGPLv2.1 like the rest of the plugins.
+# The samplerate plugin source code is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later to be
+# consistent with the libsamplerate license. However, if the licensee has a
+# commercial license for libsamplerate, the samplerate plugin may be used under
+# the terms of LGPL-2.1-only like the rest of the plugins.
 LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a916467b91076e631dd8edb7424769c7 \
                     file://COPYING.GPL;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils.inc
index b627ced1aa..bca7cdd3bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/alsa/alsa-utils.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ designed to allow users to control the various parts of the ALSA system."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.alsa-project.org"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-# Some parts are GPLv2+, some are only GPLv2 (e.g. axfer, alsactl) so result is GPLv2
+# Some parts are GPL-2.0-or-later, some are GPL-2.0-only (e.g. axfer, alsactl)
+# so result is GPL-2.0-only
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
                     file://alsactl/utils.c;beginline=3;endline=18;md5=96cc06a4cebe5eb7975688ffb0e65642"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
index bbab3ae038..a69dd32bd7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pulseaudio.org"
 AUTHOR = "Lennart Poettering"
 SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
 
-# Most of PulseAudio code is under LGPLv2.1+. There are a few exceptions:
+# Most of PulseAudio code is under LGPL-2.1-or-later. There are a few
+# exceptions:
 #
 # The "adrian" echo canceller variant has code under a non-standard permissive
 # license. See src/modules/echo-cancel/adrian-license.txt for details. This
@@ -39,11 +40,12 @@ SECTION = "libs/multimedia"
 # The dependency with the most complicated licensing considerations is libdbus.
 # When PACKAGECONFIG[dbus] is enabled (like it is by default), libdbus will be
 # used by both the server and the client library (libpulse). Does this affect
-# applications that use libpulse? It should be also noted that libdbus is
-# dual-licensed: either GPLv2+ or AFL-2 terms apply. Whose decision is it which
-# of the licenses apply? What a mess. Some people hold the view that libdbus is
-# a system library that is covered by the "special exception" in GPLv2's
-# section 3, and therefore libdbus's GPL license doesn't affect PulseAudio.
+# applications that use libpulse? It should also be noted that libdbus is
+# dual-licensed: either GPL-2.0-or-later or AFL-2.0 terms apply. Whose decision
+# is it which of the licenses apply? What a mess. Some people hold the view that
+# libdbus is a system library that is covered by the "special exception" in
+# GPLv2's section 3, and therefore libdbus's GPL license doesn't affect
+# PulseAudio.
 LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & MIT & BSD-3-Clause"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=0e5cd938de1a7a53ea5adac38cc10c39 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-sato/l3afpad/l3afpad_git.bb b/meta/recipes-sato/l3afpad/l3afpad_git.bb
index b06b0958a0..56cbe6bc8d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-sato/l3afpad/l3afpad_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-sato/l3afpad/l3afpad_git.bb
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ are implemented in the editor. L3afpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, \
 requires few libraries, and starts up quickly."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad"
 
-# Note that COPYING seems to mistakenly contain LGPLv2.1.
-# The source code is marked GPLv2+ and COPYING used to contain
+# Note that COPYING seems to mistakenly contain LGPL-2.1.
+# The source code is marked GPL-2.0-or-later and COPYING used to contain
 # that as well.
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \