Make invalid LICENSE fields fatal

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index d2d5da04cf..dd346ee8f3 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -438,6 +438,10 @@ python () {
     import exceptions
 
     pn = bb.data.getVar('PN', d, 1)
+    license = bb.data.getVar('LICENSE', d, True)
+    if license == "INVALID":
+        bb.fatal('This recipe does not have the LICENSE field set (%s)' % pn)
+
     # If we're building a target package we need to use fakeroot (pseudo)
     # in order to capture permissions, owners, groups and special files
     if not bb.data.inherits_class('native', d) and not bb.data.inherits_class('cross', d):