This is a known issue, that has been discussed in the email lists.  This issue is that qemu-config is bringing in a set of dependencies, some of which are GPLv3, since the qemu-config itself is not GPLv3 there is no direct way to disable it.

A patch is currently pending in the 6/1 Consolidated pull.

Minimal image build also fails for non-GPLv3 build, error log as below:

NOTE: Resolving any missing task queue dependencies
NOTE: Runtime target 'oprofileui-server' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['oprofileui-server', 'libglade', 'gnome-common']
NOTE: Runtime target 'qemu-config' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['qemu-config', 'oprofileui-server', 'libglade', 'gnome-common']
NOTE: Runtime target 'task-core-boot' is unbuildable, removing...
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['task-core-boot', 'qemu-config', 'oprofileui-server', 'libglade', 'gnome-common']
ERROR: Required build target 'core-image-minimal' has no buildable providers.
Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['core-image-minimal', 'task-core-boot', 'qemu-config', 'oprofileui-server', 'libglade', 'gnome-common']
ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'gnome-common'
ERROR: Command execution failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 102, in runAsyncCommand
    commandmethod(self.cmds_async, self, options)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/command.py", line 200, in buildTargets
    command.cooker.buildTargets(pkgs_to_build, task)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 833, in buildTargets
    taskdata.add_unresolved(localdata, self.status)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 534, in add_unresolved
    self.remove_buildtarget(targetid)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 491, in remove_buildtarget
    self.fail_fnid(fnid, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 471, in fail_fnid
    self.remove_buildtarget(target, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 491, in remove_buildtarget
    self.fail_fnid(fnid, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 476, in fail_fnid
    self.remove_runtarget(target, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 517, in remove_runtarget
    self.fail_fnid(fnid, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 476, in fail_fnid
    self.remove_runtarget(target, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 517, in remove_runtarget
    self.fail_fnid(fnid, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 476, in fail_fnid
    self.remove_runtarget(target, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 517, in remove_runtarget
    self.fail_fnid(fnid, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 471, in fail_fnid
    self.remove_buildtarget(target, missing_list)
  File "/home/jxu49/osel/poky-gpl/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py", line 501, in remove_buildtarget
    raise bb.providers.NoProvider(target)
NoProvider: core-image-minimal

I tried poky/master, which has the qemu-config fixing patch. The issue does not happen for both minimal/basic for non-GPLv3 build with this branch. So if we want 1.1 M1 has such fixing, we may need to backport the patch.

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=54825128e13cc1b601585daefa84e1dcdd6dc995

This will not be pulled into M1, but it is available in master

Verify with Yocto 1.1 M2 RC3 build, the bug is fixed.