36 files changed, 43 insertions, 43 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index c3ecd81c4a..ff83567bd9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Miscellaneous files for the base system"
 DESCRIPTION = "The base-files package creates the basic system directory structure and provides a small set of key configuration files for the system."
 SECTION = "base"
 PR = "r89"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://licenses/GPL-2;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 # Removed all license related tasks in this recipe as license.bbclass 
 # now deals with this. In order to get accurate licensing on to the image:
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
index 2926a377c6..9a27ad3ab5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-passwd/base-passwd_3.5.29.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Base system master password/group files"
 DESCRIPTION = "The master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group).  The update-passwd tool is also provided to keep the system databases synchronized with these master files."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://launchpad.net/base-passwd"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=eb723b61539feef013de476e68b5c50a"
 
 RECIPE_NO_UPDATE_REASON = "Version 3.5.38 requires cdebconf for update-passwd utility"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.35.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.35.0.bb
index be8c06323c..868d7a230f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.35.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox-inittab_1.35.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "inittab configuration for BusyBox"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
 SRC_URI = "file://inittab"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index 622325aabb..69fa499737 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DEPENDS += "kern-tools-native virtual/crypt"
 
 # bzip2 applet in busybox is based on lightly-modified bzip2-1.0.4 source
 # the GPL is version 2 only
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & bzip2-1.0.4"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & bzip2-1.0.4"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=de10de48642ab74318e893a61105afbb \
                     file://archival/libarchive/bz/LICENSE;md5=28e3301eae987e8cfe19988e98383dae"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.0.bb
index 0800bc3b6d..8b904fd56e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_9.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ manipulation utilities. These are the core utilities which are expected to exist
 every system."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://debbugs.gnu.org/coreutils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464 \
                     file://src/ls.c;beginline=1;endline=15;md5=3b8fbaee597c8a9bb88d30840d53048c \
                     "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb
index b39f7523c0..f2eb8b1874 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus-wait/dbus-wait_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "A simple tool to wait for a specific signal over DBus"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/dbus-wait"
 DESCRIPTION = "${SUMMARY}"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 DEPENDS = "dbus"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb
index 99b0a20004..4acf435694 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus-glib_0.112.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "High level language (GLib) binding for D-Bus"
 DESCRIPTION = "GLib bindings for the D-Bus message bus that integrate \
 the D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus"
-LICENSE = "AFL-2.1 | GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "AFL-2.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c31c73c1d8f5d06784b2ccd22e42d641 \
                     file://dbus/dbus-glib.h;beginline=7;endline=21;md5=c374833bd817988323f3a8fda0dc7f48"
 SECTION = "base"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
index adc138bf10..a43bf65629 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/dbus/dbus.inc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 inherit autotools pkgconfig gettext upstream-version-is-even
 
-LICENSE = "AFL-2.1 | GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "AFL-2.1 | GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=10dded3b58148f3f1fd804b26354af3e \
                     file://dbus/dbus.h;beginline=6;endline=20;md5=7755c9d7abccd5dbd25a6a974538bb3c"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.48.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.48.bb
index 737302a444..6c5d315034 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.48.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ell/ell_0.48.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ libdl (for dynamic linking). While ELL is designed to be efficient \
 and compact enough for use on embedded Linux platforms, it is not \
 limited to resource-constrained systems."
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE  = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE  = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fb504b67c50331fc78734fed90fb0e09"
 
 DEPENDS = "dbus"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
index a0f3402904..30c1955d86 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/gettext/gettext_0.21.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library suppo
 a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable and already translated strings."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+ & LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c678957b0c8e964aa6c70fd77641a71e"
 
 DEPENDS = "gettext-native virtual/libiconv"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index 0eef2e330c..268e48a088 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://developer.gnome.org/glib/"
 
 # pcre is under BSD;
 # docs/reference/COPYING is with a 'public domain'-like license!
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause & PD"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & BSD-3-Clause & PD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                     file://glib/glib.h;beginline=4;endline=17;md5=b88abb7f3ad09607e71cb9d530155906 \
                     file://gmodule/COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.70.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.70.1.bb
index f020e16068..44bc08f159 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.70.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-networking/glib-networking_2.70.1.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "glib-networking contains the implementations of certain GLib netw
 HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib-networking/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://bugzilla.gnome.org"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
 SECTION = "libs"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.35.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.35.bb
index 893d376459..b7b54e9ccc 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.35.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/cross-localedef-native_2.35.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Cross locale generation tool for glibc"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSES;md5=1541fd8f5e8f1579512bf05f533371ba \
       file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc
index 098ebbc932..90a6a534f3 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-common.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "GLIBC (GNU C Library)"
 DESCRIPTION = "The GNU C Library is used as the system C library in most systems with the Linux kernel."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM ?= "file://LICENSES;md5=1541fd8f5e8f1579512bf05f533371ba \
       file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb
index fd1630b73b..e867ceb3ec 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/ldconfig-native_2.12.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A standalone native ldconfig build"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${S}/ldconfig.c;endline=17;md5=1d15f20937c055cb5de2329a4c054399"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.37.bb b/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.37.bb
index 1b980abe06..57d4152a39 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.37.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.8.37.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "High level tools to configure network interfaces \
 This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to \
 configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces, based on \
 the file /etc/network/interfaces."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://salsa.debian.org/debian/ifupdown.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb
index 741da324d0..d39323db2f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/init-ifupdown/init-ifupdown_1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Basic TCP/IP networking init scripts and configuration files"
 DESCRIPTION = "This package provides high level tools to configure network interfaces"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.debian.org/ifupdown"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${WORKDIR}/copyright;md5=3dd6192d306f582dee7687da3d8748ab"
 PR = "r7"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb
index 46952e4685..187bb8326b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/init-system-helpers_1.60.bb
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ specific to systemd at all. Maintainers of other init systems are welcome to \
 include their helpers in this package."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://salsa.debian.org/debian/init-system-helpers"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause & GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://debian/copyright;md5=ee2b1830fcfead84d07bc060ec43e072"
 
 SRCREV = "dbd9197569c0935029acd5c9b02b84c68fd937ee"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
index e4c4813220..9429e5881d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "SysV init scripts"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/fedora-sysv/initscripts"
 DESCRIPTION = "Initscripts provide the basic system startup initialization scripts for the system.  These scripts include actions such as filesystem mounting, fsck, RTC manipulation and other actions routinely performed at system startup.  In addition, the scripts are also used during system shutdown to reverse the actions performed at startup."
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 PR = "r155"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
index 7cb45eff77..5328e5ec3c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/kbd/kbd_2.4.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ 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+
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=892f569a555ba9c07a568a7c0c4fa63a"
 
 inherit autotools gettext pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_2.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_2.0.bb
index a58dd88ea5..cb0156d9d8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libcgroup/libcgroup_2.0.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "libcgroup is a library that abstracts the control group file syst
 in Linux. Control groups allow you to limit, account and isolate resource usage \
 (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) of groups of processes."
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc b/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc
index 58d4c56ddf..39ba2636ff 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/libxcrypt/libxcrypt.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Extended cryptographic library (from glibc)"
 DESCRIPTION = "Forked code from glibc libary to extract only crypto part."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSING;md5=c0a30e2b1502c55a7f37e412cd6c6a4b \
                     file://COPYING.LIB;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                     "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-obstack.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-obstack.bb
index 74de48c2cd..4df24c013b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-obstack.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-obstack.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A standalone library to implement GNU libc's obstack"
 DESCRIPTION = "copy + paste of the obstack functions and macros found in GNU gcc libiberty library for use with musl libc"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/pullmoll/musl-obstack"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3d23e4eef8243efcaab6f0a438078932"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb
index 00d088d089..c42dff3a53 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/musl/musl-utils.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 DESCRIPTION = "getconf, getent and iconv implementations for musl"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/musl"
-LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause & GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=9d08215e611db87b357e8674b4b42564"
 SECTION = "utils"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_6.3.bb
index 0a7a9d71ed..bec6498cdd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_6.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/netbase/netbase_6.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Basic TCP/IP networking support"
 DESCRIPTION = "This package provides the necessary infrastructure for basic TCP/IP based networking"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.debian.org/netbase"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://debian/copyright;md5=3dd6192d306f582dee7687da3d8748ab"
 PE = "1"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc
index bfecfe086e..27b52a43af 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/newlib/newlib.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceware.org/newlib/"
 DESCRIPTION = "C library intended for use on embedded systems. It is a conglomeration of several library parts, all under free software licenses that make them easily usable on embedded products."
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv3 & GPLv3 & LGPLv2 & BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause & tcl"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only & GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-2.0-only & BSD-2-Clause & BSD-3-Clause & TCL"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
                 file://COPYING;md5=59530bdf33659b29e73d4adb9f9f6552 \
                 file://COPYING3.LIB;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6 \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb b/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
index ca5a1ea8e1..edc0ac1d89 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/psplash/psplash_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Userspace framebuffer boot logo based on usplash"
 DESCRIPTION = "PSplash is a userspace graphical boot splash screen for mainly embedded Linux devices supporting a 16bpp or 32bpp framebuffer. It has few dependencies (just libc), supports basic images and text and handles rotation. Its visual look is configurable by basic source changes. Also included is a 'client' command utility for sending information to psplash such as boot progress information."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/psplash"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://psplash.h;beginline=1;endline=8;md5=8f232c1e95929eacab37f00900580224"
 DEPENDS = "gdk-pixbuf-native"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
index 569e4ff6e9..24a3301285 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/readline/readline.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html"
 
 # GPLv2+ (< 6.0), GPLv3+ (>= 6.0)
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 DEPENDS += "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
index 72f8069e61..c90a02f131 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysfsutils/sysfsutils_2.1.0.bb
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ SUMMARY = "Tools for working with sysfs"
 DESCRIPTION = "Tools for working with the sysfs virtual filesystem.  The tool 'systool' can query devices by bus, class and topology."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
-LICENSE:${PN} = "GPLv2"
-LICENSE:libsysfs = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "GPL-2.0-only"
+LICENSE:libsysfs = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=3d06403ea54c7574a9e581c6478cc393 \
                     file://cmd/GPL;md5=d41d4e2e1e108554e0388ea4aecd8d27 \
                     file://lib/LGPL;md5=b75d069791103ffe1c0d6435deeff72e"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
index 7ca951cdbd..fd888bb834 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Serial terminal support for systemd"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
 PR = "r5"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc
index 9a460c187b..e69738add5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd.inc
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an \
 elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can \
 work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit."
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.GPL2;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
                     file://LICENSE.LGPL2.1;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
index bfcf51c35a..7aad2e2bf2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab_2.88dsf.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Inittab configuration for SysVinit"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
 PR = "r10"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_3.01.bb b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_3.01.bb
index 9952f834ec..844f5f0175 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_3.01.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit_3.01.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "System-V like init"
 DESCRIPTION = "This package is required to boot in most configurations.  It provides the /sbin/init program.  This is the first process started on boot, and the last process terminated before the system halts."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe \
                     file://COPYRIGHT;endline=15;md5=a1d3b3526501d3546d530bbe6ab6cdbe \
                     "
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb b/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb
index 347495cbdb..dec16be046 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/udev/eudev_3.2.10.bb
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY = "eudev is a fork of systemd's udev"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev"
 DESCRIPTION = "eudev is Gentoo's fork of udev, systemd's device file manager for the Linux kernel. It manages device nodes in /dev and handles all user space actions when adding or removing devices."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2.0+ & LGPL-2.1+"
-LICENSE:libudev = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+LICENSE:libudev = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
 
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 glib-2.0-native gperf-native kmod libxslt-native util-linux"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.8.bb
index daee5c224b..ee49198429 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/update-rc.d/update-rc.d_0.8.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/philb/update-rc.d/"
 DESCRIPTION = "update-rc.d is a utility that allows the management of symlinks to the initscripts in the /etc/rcN.d directory structure."
 SECTION = "base"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://update-rc.d;beginline=5;endline=15;md5=d40a07c27f535425934bb5001f2037d9"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://git.yoctoproject.org/update-rc.d;branch=master"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
index c48f9572f5..982ec669a2 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux.inc
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ disk partitioning, kernel message management, filesystem creation, and system lo
 
 SECTION = "base"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2.1+ & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-4-Clause"
-LICENSE:${PN}-libblkid = "LGPLv2.1+"
-LICENSE:${PN}-libfdisk = "LGPLv2.1+"
-LICENSE:${PN}-libmount = "LGPLv2.1+"
-LICENSE:${PN}-libsmartcols = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later & LGPL-2.1-or-later & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-4-Clause"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libblkid = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libfdisk = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libmount = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+LICENSE:${PN}-libsmartcols = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.licensing;md5=0fd5c050c6187d2bf0a4492b7f4e33da \
                     file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \