diff --git a/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ef2fda3423..805b7075ce 100755
--- a/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ complain ('Trailing whitespace') if $line =~ /[ \t]$/;
 complain ('Don\'t use glib typedefs for char/short/int/long/float/double') if $line =~ /\bg(char|short|int|long|float|double)\b/;
 complain ("Don't use \"$1 $2\" instead of \"$2 $1\"") if $line =~ /\b(char|short|int|long) +(unsigned|signed)\b/;
 complain ("Don't use \"unsigned int\" but just use \"unsigned\"") if $line =~ /\b(unsigned) +(int)\b/;
-complain ("Please use LGPL-2.1+ SPDX tag for new files") if $is_patch and $line =~ /SPDX-License-Identifier/ and not /LGPL-2.1\+/;
+complain ("Please use LGPL-2.1-or-later SPDX tag for new files") if $is_patch and $line =~ /SPDX-License-Identifier/ and not /LGPL-2.1-or-later/;
 complain ("Use a SPDX-License-Identifier instead of Licensing boilerplate") if $is_patch and $line =~ /under the terms of/;
 complain ("Don't use space inside elvis operator ?:") if $line =~ /\?[\t ]+:/;
 complain ("Don't add Emacs editor formatting hints to source files") if $line_no == 1 and $line =~ /-\*-.+-\*-/;