Re: [OE-core][PATCH] licences: Move exceptions to subdirectory

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Wed Aug 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM CEST, Joshua Watt via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Moves the SPDX license exceptions to a subdirectory to make the easier
> to identify as license exceptions vs. actual licenses
>
> This should have no effect on other layers since SPDX doesn't allow
> custom Exceptions like it does for Licenses (via LicenseRef-); since we
> have already enumerated all known exceptions, its unlikely any other
> layer have added their own
>
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
> ---

Hi Joshua,

Thanks for your patch.

It looks like this is breaking devtool/recipetool:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/cases/devtool.py", line 59, in test_devtool_add_reset
    self._run('devtool add myapp %s' % self.myapp_dst)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oeqa/sdkext/case.py", line 22, in _run
    return subprocess.check_output(". %s > /dev/null;"\
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 466, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.12/subprocess.py", line 571, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
oeqa.utils.subprocesstweak.OETestCalledProcessError: Command '. /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/environment-setup-core2-32-poky-linux > /dev/null; devtool add myapp /srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/myapp;' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Standard Output: NOTE: Reconnecting to bitbake server...
NOTE: Reconnecting to bitbake server...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/scripts/recipetool", line 111, in <module>
    ret = main()
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/scripts/recipetool", line 100, in main
    ret = args.func(args)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py", line 798, in create_recipe
    handle_license_vars(srctree_use, lines_before, handled, extravalues, tinfoil.config_data)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/scripts/lib/recipetool/create.py", line 965, in handle_license_vars
    for node, licfile, md5 in find_licenses(srctree, d):
                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/license_finder.py", line 201, in find_licenses
    licenses = match_licenses(licfiles, srctree, d, extra_hashes)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/license_finder.py", line 173, in match_licenses
    md5sums.update(_crunch_known_licenses(d))
                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/license_finder.py", line 52, in _crunch_known_licenses
    md5value = bb.utils.md5_file(path)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py", line 648, in md5_file
    return _hasher(sig, filename)
  File "/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py", line 623, in _hasher
    with open(filename, "rb") as f:
         ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/qemux86/build/build/tmp/work/qemux86-poky-linux/core-image-minimal/1.0/testsdkext/layers/openembedded-core/meta/files/common-licenses/exceptions'

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/30/builds/4408
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/16/builds/4463
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/36/builds/4420
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/45/builds/2154
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/68/builds/4537

Everything else looks fine here. Can you have a look at that?

Thanks,
Mathieu

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Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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