Created attachment 2225 [details] license.manifest Using YP 1.7 (dizzy), build core-image-minimal with INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPLv3" in local.conf; to make sure that readline is added to the image I added IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " gnupg" to local.conf Once build is done, check the license.manifest, e.g. tmp/deploy/licenses/core-image-minimal-qemux86-20141104134601/license.manifest Searching for GPLv3 reveals this: PACKAGE NAME: libreadline6 PACKAGE VERSION: 6.3 RECIPE NAME: readline LICENSE: GPLv3+ So instead of readline_5.2.bb (which is GPLv2) readline_6.3.bb is selected even so it is a non GPLv3 build.
This is a regression in 1.7 and may relate to the canonicalisation of licenses. A patch relating to this was submitted recently and does appear to resolve the issue: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=8c051c8c318b5dba8da968850dccd64238d19619 If this is indeed the correct fix it will need to be backported to the dizzy branch.
Richard has now applied the above patch to the dizzy branch for 1.7.1: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?h=dizzy&id=f3a177cf045b19612b7d2c96889ac24307191c3d
For clarity, this doesn't just affect readline, it affects any recipe where license ends in + and isn't already in SPDX form (i.e. "GPLv3+" when INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE = "GPLv3"). I've updated the title of the bug accordingly.
Hello, Tested as on comment#1 both on dizzy (93e3df91aaebd48b9c4af946247f3488681d32b6) and on master (c60786cec04230cc4318d269d29029de76012fb0) on Ubuntu 14.10. Everything is fine. Marking as verified. cosscat@ubnt:/media/yp_builds/poky/build/tmp/deploy/licenses/core-image-minimal-qemux86-20150313075039$ grep -i gpl3 license.manifest cosscat@ubnt:/media/yp_builds/poky/build/tmp/deploy/licenses/core-image-minimal-qemux86-20150313075039$ pwd /media/yp_builds/poky/build/tmp/deploy/licenses/core-image-minimal-qemux86-20150313075039 Costin