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From: Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
Subject: [OE-core][PATCH] documentation: Update documentation for SPDX License expressions
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:57:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720205740.2778448-1-JPEWhacker@gmail.com> (raw)

Updates the variable documentation to indicate that they now deal with
SPDX License identifier and expressions.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
---
 meta/conf/documentation.conf | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index 842cf31739..1a6ec8fdd5 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE[doc] = "Defines additional free disk space created in t
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_MAXSIZE[doc] = "Defines the maximum size in Kbytes for the generated image."
 IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE[doc] = "Defines the size in Kbytes for the generated image."
 IMAGE_TYPES[doc] = "Specifies the complete list of supported image types by default."
-INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE[doc] = "Specifies a space-separated list of license names (as they would appear in LICENSE) that should be excluded from the build. Wildcard is supported, such as '*GPL-3.0*'"
+INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE[doc] = "Specifies a space-separated list of SPDX Licenses or SPDX Exceptions (as they would appear in LICENSE) that should be excluded from the build. Wildcard is supported, such as '*GPL-3.0*'"
+INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE_EXCEPTIONS[doc] = "Specifies a space-separated list of SPDX Licenses or SPDX Exceptions (as they would appear in LICENSE) that should be allowed in the build, even if they would otherwise match INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE"
 INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS[doc] = "Prevents the default dependencies, namely the C compiler and standard C library (libc), from being added to DEPENDS."
 INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP[doc] = "If set to "1", causes the build to not strip binaries in resulting packages."
 INHERIT[doc] = "Causes the named class to be inherited at this point during parsing. The variable is only valid in configuration files."
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ LAYERDIR[doc] = "When used inside the layer.conf configuration file, this variab
 LAYERVERSION[doc] = "Optionally specifies the version of a layer as a single number. This variable is used in the conf/layer.conf file and must be suffixed with the name of the specific layer."
 LEAD_SONAME[doc] = "Specifies the lead (or primary) compiled library file (.so) that the debian class applies its naming policy to given a recipe that packages multiple libraries."
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM[doc] = "Checksums of the license text in the recipe source code."
-LICENSE[doc] = "The list of source licenses for the recipe. Logical operators '&' or '|' and parentheses can be used."
+LICENSE[doc] = "The source license for the recipe as a SPDX License expression"
 LICENSE_FLAGS[doc] = "List of commercial or other special licensing terms which must be explicitly approved through LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED."
 LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED[doc] = "List of accepted licensing terms matching LICENSE_FLAGS."
 LICENSE_FLAGS_DETAILS[doc] = "Gives more details about a specific license found in LICENSE_FLAGS."
-- 
2.54.0



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