diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-abind/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-abind/PKGBUILD
index 8860ee9ea0..97bb03fa6d 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-abind/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-abind/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pkgrel=10
 pkgdesc="Combine Multidimensional Arrays"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-affxparser/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-affxparser/PKGBUILD
index 1ca3991b7d..e849250d0c 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-affxparser/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-affxparser/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Affymetrix File Parsing SDK"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://bioconductor.org/packages/$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-bufferedmatrix/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-bufferedmatrix/PKGBUILD
index 4112840003..aa18af3438 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-bufferedmatrix/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-bufferedmatrix/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="A matrix data storage object held in temporary files"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://bioconductor.org/packages/$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-deming/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-deming/PKGBUILD
index 4c9c0b0a8e..6374cf811f 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-deming/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-deming/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Deming, Theil-Sen, Passing-Bablock and Total Least Squares Regression"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://cran.r-project.org/package=$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-mdqc/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-mdqc/PKGBUILD
index fd8dedc1c6..a3bb7e107e 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-mdqc/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-mdqc/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Mahalanobis Distance Quality Control for microarrays"
 arch=(any)
 url="https://bioconductor.org/packages/$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=(
   r
 )
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/r-preprocesscore/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/r-preprocesscore/PKGBUILD
index 8183141446..9048d53e0c 100644
--- a/BioArchLinux/r-preprocesscore/PKGBUILD
+++ b/BioArchLinux/r-preprocesscore/PKGBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="A collection of pre-processing functions"
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://bioconductor.org/packages/$_pkgname"
-license=(LGPL)
+license=('LGPL-2.0-or-later')
 depends=(
   lapack
   r
diff --git a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
index 3c74d7c874..3172680209 100644
--- a/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
+++ b/lilac-extensions/lilac_r_utils.py
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ license_map = {
     "GPL-2 | GPL-3": "GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only",
     "GPL-3": "GPL-3.0-only",
     "LGPL": "LGPL-2.0-or-later",
-    "LGPL (>= 2)": "LGPL",
+    "LGPL (>= 2)": "LGPL-2.0-or-later",
     "LGPL (>= 2.1)": "LGPL",
     "LGPL-2": "LGPL2.1",
     "LGPL-3": "LGPL3",