Oops, sumbitted before I typed the body. Anyway, the request is to have the package version in the license.manifest file This might be clearer if you have packages like samba for which different versions come with different licenses.
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f25a6c09daf00bc7d1d6af00998340c76dcc91e1
This should be verified as fixed: pokybuild@autobuilder04:~/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-slave/nightly-arm/build/build/tmp/deploy/licenses/core-image-lsb-qemuarm-20120723115537> more license.manifest PACKAGE NAME: acl PACKAGE VERSION: 2.2.51 RECIPE NAME: acl LICENSE: PACKAGE NAME: alsa-conf-base PACKAGE VERSION: 1.0.25 RECIPE NAME: alsa-lib LICENSE: LGPLv2.1 GPLv2 PACKAGE NAME: alsa-state PACKAGE VERSION: 0.2.0 RECIPE NAME: alsa-state LICENSE: MIT
Setting to verified. I submitted evidence that it was fixed as well as the commit hash.