diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-aroma.apd/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-aroma.apd/PKGBUILD
index d8e3e4e162..699bd41029 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-aroma.apd/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-aroma.apd/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="A Probe-Level Data File Format Used by 'aroma.affymetrix' [deprecated]"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r-r.huge
   r-r.methodss3
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-dbi/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-dbi/PKGBUILD
index 8fdcd5c7cb..52bffa5542 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-dbi/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-dbi/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="R Database Interface"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-dbitest/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-dbitest/PKGBUILD
index 8a9ea52f86..cbadf23ae5 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-dbitest/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-dbitest/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Testing DBI Backends"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r-blob
   r-callr
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-future/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-future/PKGBUILD
index 8961e4c879..5bc2e10689 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-future/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-future/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Unified Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r-digest
   r-globals
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-globals/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-globals/PKGBUILD
index 83beaa9e3a..5f9d0e2ea9 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-globals/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-globals/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Identify Global Objects in R Expressions"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-listenv/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-listenv/PKGBUILD
index d90da73cee..80a606a6db 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-listenv/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-listenv/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Environments Behaving (Almost) as Lists"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-mvabund/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-mvabund/PKGBUILD
index 67f6a3e821..f52e7ede22 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-mvabund/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-mvabund/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Statistical Methods for Analysing Multivariate Abundance Data"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   gsl
   r-rcpp
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-parallelly/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-parallelly/PKGBUILD
index f4112229dc..06531e2620 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-parallelly/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-parallelly/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Enhancing the 'parallel' Package"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-profmem/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-profmem/PKGBUILD
index decbf88c29..3e4cb6b491 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-profmem/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-profmem/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=6
 pkgdesc="Simple Memory Profiling for R"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-r.methodss3/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-r.methodss3/PKGBUILD
index 382e5d3d6e..0720808682 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-r.methodss3/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-r.methodss3/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pkgrel=10
 pkgdesc="S3 Methods Simplified"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-rsqlite/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-rsqlite/PKGBUILD
index 89d3de6be5..eb543010d5 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-rsqlite/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-rsqlite/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="SQLite Interface for R"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.1-or-later')
 depends=(
   r-bit64
   r-blob
diff --git a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
index 3172680209..d1af19254d 100644
--- a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
+++ b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ license_map = {
     "GPL-3": "GPL-3.0-only",
     "LGPL": "LGPL-2.0-or-later",
     "LGPL (>= 2)": "LGPL-2.0-or-later",
-    "LGPL (>= 2.1)": "LGPL",
+    "LGPL (>= 2.1)": "LGPL-2.1-or-later",
     "LGPL-2": "LGPL2.1",
     "LGPL-3": "LGPL3",
     "LGPL-3 | Apache License 2.0": "LGPL-3.0-only OR Apache-2.0",