recipes: Update LICENSE variable to use SPDX license identifiers

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

76 files changed, 78 insertions, 78 deletions

diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb
index 75cf215909..ec62f31870 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/beep/beep_1.4.9.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ patterns with given frequencies, durations, and spacing."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/spkr-beep/beep/issues"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/spkr-beep/beep.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb
index f473ccaf5a..713492b44f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/bitwise/bitwise_0.43.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ kernel developers and device drivers developers."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1ebbd3e34237af26da5dc08a4e440464"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise/releases/download/v${PV}/bitwise-v${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb
index 114e39463c..63c32dbf0e 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/boinc/boinc-client_7.18.1.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ global warming, discover sources of gravitational waves, and many other types \
 of scientific and mathematical research."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
                     file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6a6a8e020838b23406c81b19c1d46df6"
 SECTION = "applications"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb
index 05d3a1e239..1566f8a88f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cfengine/cfengine_3.15.0.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://cfengine.com"
 
 SKIP_RECIPE[cfengine] ?= "Needs porting to openssl 3.x"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=233aa25e53983237cf0bd4c238af255f"
 
 DEPENDS = "attr tokyocabinet bison-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb
index 39cdaea1a3..a743e72520 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/cmatrix/cmatrix_2.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Terminal based 'The Matrix' screen implementation"
 AUTHOR = "Abishek V Ashok"
 
-LICENSE = "GPL-3.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix.git;branch=stable;protocol=https"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb
index 1c613b0977..dd97796f46 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/collectd/collectd_5.12.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Collects and summarises system performance statistics"
 DESCRIPTION = "collectd is a daemon which collects system performance statistics periodically and provides mechanisms to store the values in a variety of ways, for example in RRD files."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & MIT"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1bd21f19f7f0c61a7be8ecacb0e28854"
 
 DEPENDS = "rrdtool curl libpcap libxml2 yajl libgcrypt libtool lvm2"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb
index 165e7040f0..a31911b977 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ddrescue/ddrescue_1.26.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data \
     trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html"
 SECTION = "console"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=76d6e300ffd8fb9d18bd9b136a9bba13 \
                     file://main_common.cc;beginline=5;endline=16;md5=ad099df052bdd8297f490712285069da \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb
index 2bfa575d71..0b1e7e6088 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dialog/dialog_1.3-20210509.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ script (or any scripting language)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a6f89e2100d9b6cdffcea4f398e37343"
 
 SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/${BPN}/${BP}.tgz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb
index f07d4c4067..014c773584 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/dlt-daemon/dlt-daemon_2.18.8.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ logging facility providing: \
 - the DLT test applications"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.genivi.org/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "MPLv2"
+LICENSE = "MPL-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=8184208060df880fe3137b93eb88aeea"
 
 DEPENDS = "zlib gzip-native json-c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb
index aa08216eb1..3f00621f71 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/enscript/enscript_1.6.6.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ customizing printouts."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/enscript/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f27defe1e96c2e1ecd4e0c9be8967949"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb
index ba436c2776..3e4edae9d7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/haveged/haveged_1.9.14.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "haveged - A simple entropy daemon"
 DESCRIPTION = "The haveged project is an attempt to provide an easy-to-use, unpredictable random number generator based upon an adaptation of the HAVEGE algorithm. Haveged was created to remedy low-entropy conditions in the Linux random device that can occur under some workloads, especially on headless servers."
 AUTHOR = "Gary Wuertz"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/index.html"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM="file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 # v1.9.14
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb
index 658392374f..e996593135 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hexedit/hexedit_1.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb
index 0f314288c9..ac845ffcf9 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/hplip/hplip_3.19.12.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "HP Linux Imaging and Printing"
-LICENSE="GPLv2"
+LICENSE="GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=20f2c819499cc2063e9a7b07b408815c"
 
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb
index e8e157658d..dac025de7c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/icewm/icewm_2.9.0.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Ice Window Manager (IceWM)"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4a26952467ef79a7efca4a9cf52d417b"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ice-wm/${BPN}/releases/download/${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.lz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
index 80f599b313..1a7d61abc0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/indent/indent_2.2.12.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ to a different one. Indent understands correct C syntax and tries to handle \
 incorrect C syntax. \
 Install the indent package if you are developing applications in C and \
 you want a program to format your code."
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 DEPENDS = "virtual/gettext"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb
index 3933355abf..84ed3b052b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/inputattach-config/inputattach-config.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "inputattach configuration file"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/GPL-2.0-only;md5=801f80980d171dd6425610833a22dbe6"
 
 SRC_URI = "file://inputattach.conf"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb
index fd4e31f3b5..8eebd691a7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/iotop/iotop_1.21.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A top utility for I/O"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=48e7be78bd2671d08c9c3bad71f1cfaa"
 
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb
index b0042b6586..4f8ea64a26 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/isomd5sum/isomd5sum_1.2.3.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Tools for taking the MD5 sum of ISO images"
 DEPENDS = "popt python3 openssl curl popt-native"
 RDEPENDS:${BPN} = "openssl curl"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=8ca43cbc842c2336e835926c2166c28b"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/rhinstaller/isomd5sum.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb
index caa13958dd..d003279966 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/jpnevulator/jpnevulator_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "A handy serial sniffer"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=892f569a555ba9c07a568a7c0c4fa63a"
 
 PV = "2.3.6+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb
index b9c3bbb407..3e6df5689a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libblockdev/libblockdev_2.26.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ block devices. It has a plugin-based architecture where each technology (like \
 LVM, Btrfs, MD RAID, Swap,...) is implemented in a separate plugin, possibly \
 with multiple implementations (e.g. using LVM CLI or the new LVM DBus API)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://rhinstaller.github.io/libblockdev/"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c07cb499d259452f324bb90c3067d85c"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb
index 2036c53eff..cd586897a4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libcec/libcec_6.0.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "USB CEC Adaptor communication Library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b3a719e97f49e4841e90573f9b1a98ac"
 
 DEPENDS = "p8platform udev ncurses swig-native python3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb
index 2369f038b4..6382569923 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libconfig/libconfig_1.7.3.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/"
 BUGTRACKER = "https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig/issues"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=fad9b3332be894bab9bc501572864b29"
 
 SRC_URI = "https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/dist/libconfig-${PV}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb
index 7ca2a5f2c6..2f67b12a8d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libdivecomputer/libdivecomputer_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.divesoftware.org/libdc/"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=243b725d71bb5df4a1e5920b344b86ad"
 
 DEPENDS = "libusb1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb
index 8a2886b8cd..80ab730406 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libgxim/libgxim_0.5.0.bb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://bitbucket.org/tagoh/libgxim/downloads/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4bb1fa63d00eb224439d413591c29a6a"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "75e20d1744139644f9951b78ea3910b162d3380302315cb4b3d0640f23694c79"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
 file://COPYING;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb
index addc57e414..0dea4aff5c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libidn/libidn_1.36.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Internationalized Domain Name support library"
 DESCRIPTION = "Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "(LGPLv2.1+ | LGPLv3) & GPLv3+"
+LICENSE = "(LGPL-2.1-or-later | LGPL-3.0-only) & GPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=df4be47940a91ee69556f5f71eed4aec \
                     file://COPYING.LESSERv2;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                     file://COPYING.LESSERv3;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02 \
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "14b67108344d81ba844631640df77c9071d9fb0659b080326ff5424e86
 PACKAGES =+ "idn"
 FILES:idn = "${bindir}/*"
 
-LICENSE:${PN} = "LGPLv2.1+ | LGPLv3"
-LICENSE:idn = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE:${PN} = "LGPL-2.1-or-later | LGPL-3.0-only"
+LICENSE:idn = "GPL-3.0-or-later"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-csharp"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb
index a7d2922dd3..db4f507b7c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.2.0.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "A library to handle Apple Property List format whereas it's binary or XML"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07 \
                     file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=6ab17b41640564434dda85c06b7124f7"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb
index 171e555863..a586f49f96 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libusbmuxd_2.0.2.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iPhone or iPod touch."
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6ab17b41640564434dda85c06b7124f7"
 
 DEPENDS = "udev libusb1 libplist"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb
index 60aa07b8b2..a83a11c684 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libleak/libleak_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 SUMMARY = "libleak detects memory leak by hooking memory functions (e.g. malloc) by LD_PRELOAD"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/WuBingzheng/libleak"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.md;beginline=18;endline=21;md5=de4f705f12cdedbe452b2c3524572b03"
 
 DEPENDS += "libbacktrace"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb
index bbfee1ff7a..1d650ac63b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblightmodbus/liblightmodbus_2.0.2.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "A cross-platform, lightweight Modbus RTU library"
 DESCRIPTION = "liblightmodbus is a very lightweight, highly configurable, \
                platform-independent Modbus RTU library."
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=84dcc94da3adb52b53ae4fa38fe49e5d"
 
 inherit cmake pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb
index 880770f34e..bac3a2c0bd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "File locking library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.qa.debian.org/libl/liblockfile.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=f4ba6ad04fcb05cc30a4cfa5062c55a3"
 
 SRC_URI = "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/libl/liblockfile/liblockfile_1.14.orig.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc
index dc8abb91f1..5a6cda6ca4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/liblognorm/liblognorm.inc
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Briefly described, liblognorm is a tool to normalize log data."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.liblognorm.com"
 SECTION = "base"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.liblognorm.com/files/download/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz\
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc
index b502177aa4..0857cc455b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libmodbus/libmodbus.inc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ QNX and Windows."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.libmodbus.org/"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
 SRC_URI = "http://libmodbus.org/releases/${BP}.tar.gz"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb
index ec427a9a73..f892cc650d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libpwquality/libpwquality_1.4.4.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Library for password quality checking and generating random passwords"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=6bd2f1386df813a459a0c34fde676fc2"
 
 SRCNAME = "libpwquality"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb
index 48a7d086b5..eb818e5651 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libqb/libqb_2.0.4.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ It provides high performance logging, tracing, ipc, and poll."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/clusterlabs/libqb/wiki"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=321bf41f280cf805086dd5a720b37785"
 
 inherit autotools pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb
index 631860a903..d917a32472 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libreport/libreport_2.10.0.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Libraries providing API for reporting different problems in appli
 to different bug targets like Bugzilla, ftp, trac, etc..."
 SUMMARY = "Generic library for reporting various problems"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://abrt.readthedocs.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 DEPENDS = "xmlrpc-c xmlrpc-c-native intltool-native \
         json-c libtar libnewt libproxy rpm \
         augeas satyr systemd \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb
index 192d4bce6f..4190338c1f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libserialport/libserialport_0.1.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libserialport is a minimal, cross-platform shared library written in C that is intended to take care of the OS-specific details when writing software that uses serial ports."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sigrok.org/wiki/Libserialport"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
 
 inherit autotools
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb
index 61f159c574..7498a57049 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libstatgrab/libstatgrab_0.92.1.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Utilities to collect and visualise system statistics"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/"
 
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 DEPENDS = "ncurses"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb
index c93c8b0be3..e22b25a168 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libuio/libuio_0.2.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Libuio - helper library for UIO subsystem"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://git.code.sf.net/p/libuio/code;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
index 792d696241..955dd5154b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libwmf/libwmf_0.2.8.4.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Library for converting WMF files"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://wvware.sourceforge.net/libwmf.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
 PR = "r3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb
index 504176d632..b706f634ed 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/linuxconsole/linuxconsole_1.7.0.bb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ input subsystem (providing support for serial mice, touchscreens etc.), and test
 the input event layer."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 DEPENDS = "${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb
index df88afa310..d7ba6e14b2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lockfile-progs/lockfile-progs_0.1.19.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lockfile-progs provide a method to lock and unlock mailboxes and files \
 safely (via liblockfile)."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lockfile-progs.html"
 SECTION = "Applications/System"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 DEPENDS = "liblockfile"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb
index 53d4f463b5..73e4eac3dd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/lprng/lprng_3.8.C.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "An Enhanced Printer Spooler"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 | Artistic-1.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only | Artistic-1.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c6570d8d699af1883db9d0e733ac9bfb"
 
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
index cc31323c3f..3cbe785a52 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/md5deep/md5deep_git.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "md5deep and hashdeep to compute and audit hashsets of amounts of file
 DESCRIPTION = "md5deep is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests on an arbitrary number of files. This package also includes hashdeep which is also able to audit hashsets."
 AUTHOR = "Jesse Kornblum, Simson L. Garfinkel"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://md5deep.sourceforge.net"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=9190f660105b9a56cdb272309bfd5491"
 
 PV = "4.4+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb
index 24271eb2bc..df43d25ac3 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/openlmi/openlmi-tools_0.10.5.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Set of CLI tools for Openlmi providers"
 DESCRIPTION = "openlmi-tools is a set of command line tools for Openlmi providers."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.openlmi.org/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://../COPYING;md5=75859989545e37968a99b631ef42722e"
 SECTION = "System/Management"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb
index d2d5dc0aa0..cf149aef9d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/ostree/ostree_2021.6.bb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ tools that combines a \"git-like\" model for committing and downloading \
 bootable filesystem trees, along with a layer for deploying them and managing \
 the bootloader configuration."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://ostree.readthedocs.io"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5f30f0716dfdd0d91eb439ebec522ec2"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
index a5e9539e9d..04923116cf 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p7zip/p7zip_16.02.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "7-zip is a commandline utility handling 7z archives."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.7-zip.org/"
-LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1+ & unRAR"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-or-later & unRAR"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://DOC/copying.txt;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c \
                     file://DOC/unRarLicense.txt;md5=9c87ddde469ef94aed153b0951d088de \
                     file://DOC/License.txt;md5=879598edf1f54dddb6930d7581357f8b"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb
index eca7d874bf..8a06990574 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/p8platform/p8platform_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Platform support library used by libCEC and binary add-ons for Kodi"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/os.h;md5=752555fa94e82005d45fd201fee5bd33"
 
 PV = "2.1.0.1"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb
index dc7b84986f..7dd48b3b42 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-plugin-ccreds_11.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "PAM cached credentials module"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
 DEPENDS = "libpam openssl db"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb
index 2db8b18160..f7cf4a03ff 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/pam/pam-ssh-agent-auth_0.10.3.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "pam-ssh-agent-auth"
 DESCRIPTION = "A PAM module which permits authentication via ssh-agent."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamsshagentauth/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "openssl & BSD"
+LICENSE = "OpenSSL & BSD"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.OpenSSL;md5=8ab01146141ded59b75f8ba7811ed05a \
                     file://OPENSSH_LICENSE;md5=7ae09218173be1643c998a4b71027f9b \
 "
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb
index 035fe9f654..7768d17418 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/perl/libfile-fnmatch-perl_0.02.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ are nonetheless useful and familiar to a large audience of end-users."
 
 HOMEPAGE = "http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-FnMatch/"
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0-or-later"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README;beginline=34;endline=37;md5=54fdfac62963b7cece5583ab38f2cf0d"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb
index d76361732a..b5f77700c4 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.119.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "PolicyKit Authorization Framework"
 DESCRIPTION = "The polkit package is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=155db86cdbafa7532b41f390409283eb \
                     file://src/polkit/polkit.h;beginline=1;endline=20;md5=0a8630b0133176d0504c87a0ded39db4"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb
index d7e59e9637..88a18aa137 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/properties-cpp/properties-cpp_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 SUMMARY = "A very simple convenience library for handling properties and signals in C++11."
 SECTION = "libs"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
 
 PV = "0.0.1+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb
index 214768fe5b..7359c12544 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rarpd/rarpd_ss981107.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://0001-rarpd.8-add-man-file.patch \
     file://rarpd.service \
 "
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://rarpd.c;md5=199b20b172ea93121bc613a9c77b6931"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb
index bb72316cf8..122b0707cf 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rrdtool/rrdtool_1.7.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "High performance data logging and graphing system for time series data"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYRIGHT;md5=39df84cfd8a5e18bf988f277f7946676"
 
 DEPENDS = "libpng zlib cairo pango glib-2.0 libxml2 groff-native python3-setuptools-native"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb
index 6a1f88093f..acdbbb7d1b 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/librelp_1.10.0.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A reliable logging library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/rsyslog/librelp"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=1fb9c10ed9fd6826757615455ca893a9"
 
 DEPENDS = "gmp nettle libidn zlib gnutls openssl"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb
index b9c4e60cb9..ebb8ecf9bd 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog_8.2202.0.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL,\
 
 DEPENDS = "zlib libestr libfastjson bison-native flex-native liblogging"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.rsyslog.com/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3 & LGPLv3 & Apache-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only & Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=51d9635e646fb75e1b74c074f788e973 \
                     file://COPYING.LESSER;md5=cb7903f1e5c39ae838209e130dca270a \
                     file://COPYING.ASL20;md5=052f8a09206615ab07326ff8ce2d9d32\
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb
index 4bfd67e27b..d8cb24cab0 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sanlock/sanlock_3.8.4.bb
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ lease algorithms: delta leases and paxos leases."
 HOMEPAGE = "https://pagure.io/sanlock"
 SECTION = "utils"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2+ & GPLv2 & GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.0-or-later & GPL-2.0-only & GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://README.license;md5=60487bf0bf429d6b5aa72b6d37a0eb22"
 
 PV .= "+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb
index e4323ec83c..a377d4ec5a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sedutil/sedutil_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ to the Trusted Computing Group OPAL 2.0 SSC specification."
 SUMMARY = "The Drive Trust Alliance Self Encrypting Drive Utility"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Common/LICENSE.txt;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb
index 0628c1d586..fe2ebe4ff7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sgpio/sgpio_1.2.0.10.bb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "9bf8c42acaa247efd9321bdb1fc2390022f0c554d77fbbd4a7363d990f
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/${BPN}"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE_GPL;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 
 do_compile:prepend() {
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb
index 5a5b357f0c..1e5ffdd856 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrok_0.5.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libsigrok is a shared library written in C, which provides the basic hardware access drivers for logic analyzers and other supported devices, as well as input/output file format support."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 libzip"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb
index 86b894090e..24091bcf90 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/libsigrokdecode_0.5.3.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "libsigrokdecode is a shared library written in C, which provides (streaming) protocol decoding functionality."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 DEPENDS = "glib-2.0 python3"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb
index 2f0aa8cc06..48f96cc435 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sigrok/sigrok-cli_0.7.2.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "sigrok-cli is a command-line frontend for sigrok."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://sigrok.org/wiki/Main_Page"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 DEPENDS = "libsigrok"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb
index 233d5b8572..28f0ce8cd1 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.2.bb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/"
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/smartmontools/smartmontools-${PV}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb
index 0e53cfa8d0..993efab395 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-isotp_git.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=72d977d697c3c05830fdff00a7448931"
 SRCREV = "beb4650660179963a8ed5b5cbf2085cc1b34f608"
 PV = "1.0+git${SRCPV}"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb
index 45978bb2c5..07b80a5307 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/can-utils_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Linux CAN network development utilities"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2 & BSD-3-Clause"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & BSD-3-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://include/linux/can.h;endline=44;md5=a9e1169c6c9a114a61329e99f86fdd31"
 
 DEPENDS = "libsocketcan"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb
index 59114b0278..ab4710e81f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/canutils_4.0.6.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "canutils (PTX flavour)"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pengutronix.de"
 SECTION = "console/network"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
 
 DEPENDS = "libsocketcan"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb
index 27380ee19d..9f6ef85c87 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/socketcan/libsocketcan_0.0.12.bb
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "Control basic functions in socketcan from userspace"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.pengutronix.de"
 SECTION = "libs/network"
 
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://src/libsocketcan.c;beginline=3;endline=17;md5=97e38adced4385d8fba1ae2437cedee1"
 
 SRCREV = "077def398ad303043d73339112968e5112d8d7c8"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb
index 340a124965..3916bbd60d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/sysdig/sysdig_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture \
 system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, \
 filter and analyze."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://www.sysdig.org/"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & (MIT | GPL-2.0)"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0 & (MIT | GPL-2.0-only)"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=f8fee3d59797546cffab04f3b88b2d44"
 
 inherit cmake pkgconfig
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb
index 271fe7a284..fc64ec0fcb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tipcutils/tipcutils_git.bb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Transparent Inter-Process Communication protocol"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://tipclog/tipc.h;endline=35;md5=985b6ea8735818511d276c1b466cce98"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://git.code.sf.net/p/tipc/tipcutils;branch=master \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb
index 13aa92e116..8dca2940b5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/tiptop/tiptop_2.3.1.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUMMARY = "Hardware performance monitoring counters"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://team.inria.fr/pacap/software/tiptop/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 DEPENDS = "ncurses libxml2 bison-native flex-native"
 
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb
index c8d585729f..3a3dd192be 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_git.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "A lightweight hotkey daemon"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/wertarbyte/triggerhappy"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 
 # matches debian/0.5.0-1 tag
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb
index 3e8d87f9aa..b3db508cc7 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/uml-utilities/uml-utilities_20040406.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SECTION = "console/utils"
 SUMMARY = "Utilities for User-Mode-Linux"
-LICENSE = "GPL-2.0"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 DEPENDS = "zlib ncurses readline"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 SRC_URI = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/user-mode-linux/tools/1/uml_utilities_${PV}.tar.bz2 \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb
index 3c17d7a3c5..a374041934 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/vlock/vlock_2.2.3.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DESCRIPTION = "Sometimes a malicious local user could cause more problems \
   "
 SECTION = "utils"
 
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=a17cb0a873d252440acfdf9b3d0e7fbf"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GENTOO_MIRROR}/${BP}.tar.gz \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb
index ef1ae2c0b0..faf8dd362d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/volume_key/volume-key_0.3.12.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "The volume_key project provides a libvolume_key, a library for manipulating \
 storage volume encryption keys and storing them separately from volumes, and an \
 associated command-line tool, named volume_key."
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 SECTION = "devel/lib"
 
 HOMEPAGE = "https://pagure.io/volume_key"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb
index 3ccc5afd5c..ad32cb0e72 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/wipe/wipe_0.24.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ including Linux 2. * , (Open, Net, Free)BSD, aix 4.1, SunOS \
 packages are available on most Linux distributions. \
 Under Debian, the package name is wipe"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://lambda-diode.com/software/wipe/"
-LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://GPL;md5=0636e73ff0215e8d672dc4c32c317bb3"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/berke/wipe.git;branch=master;protocol=https \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb
index 1a77665e99..0fda3e6756 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/zlog/zlog_1.2.15.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 DESCRIPTION = "Zlog is a pure C logging library"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/HardySimpson/zlog"
-LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
 SRCREV = "876099f3c66033f3de11d79f63814766b1021dbe"