9 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

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"