license/copyleft: exception for ast parse

As the standard for LICENSE format is not well defined, we
may well run into issues where LICENSE cannot be parsed via
ast. In cases like this, we need to warn and continue.

(From OE-Core rev: 07f94fa1d661d38b775ce2d99b84e5610c369392)

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 96fdb46155..4689aaf615 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -231,7 +231,10 @@ python do_populate_lic() {
     try:
         v.visit_string(license_types)
     except oe.license.InvalidLicense as exc:
-        bb.fatal("%s: %s" % (d.getVar('PF', True), exc))
+        bb.fatal('%s: %s' % (d.getVar('PF', True), exc))
+    except SyntaxError:
+        bb.warn("%s: Failed to parse it's LICENSE field." % (d.getVar('PF', True)))
+
 }
 
 SSTATETASKS += "do_populate_lic"