3 files changed, 27 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index de81a7d687..06cfe260ac 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ python () {
                 check_license = False
 
         if check_license and bad_licenses:
-            bad_licenses = map(lambda l: canonical_license(d, l), bad_licenses)
+            bad_licenses = expand_wildcard_licenses(d, bad_licenses)
 
             whitelist = []
             for lic in bad_licenses:
diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 14d3107c4a..ea4c8801e9 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -285,6 +285,31 @@ def canonical_license(d, license):
             lic += '+'
     return lic or license
 
+def expand_wildcard_licenses(d, wildcard_licenses):
+    """
+    Return actual spdx format license names if wildcard used. We expand
+    wildcards from SPDXLICENSEMAP flags and SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES values.
+    """
+    import fnmatch
+    licenses = []
+    spdxmapkeys = d.getVarFlags('SPDXLICENSEMAP').keys()
+    for wld_lic in wildcard_licenses:
+        spdxflags = fnmatch.filter(spdxmapkeys, wld_lic)
+        licenses += [d.getVarFlag('SPDXLICENSEMAP', flag) for flag in spdxflags]
+
+    spdx_lics = (d.getVar('SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES') or '').split()
+    for wld_lic in wildcard_licenses:
+        licenses += fnmatch.filter(spdx_lics, wld_lic)
+
+    licenses = list(set(licenses))
+    return licenses
+
+def incompatible_license_contains(license, truevalue, falsevalue, d):
+    license = canonical_license(d, license)
+    bad_licenses = (d.getVar('INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE', True) or "").split()
+    bad_licenses = expand_wildcard_licenses(d, bad_licenses)
+    return truevalue if license in bad_licenses else falsevalue
+
 def incompatible_license(d, dont_want_licenses, package=None):
     """
     This function checks if a recipe has only incompatible licenses. It also
diff --git a/meta/conf/documentation.conf b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
index 5564316bb3..2ab86e1487 100644
--- a/meta/conf/documentation.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/documentation.conf
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE[doc] = "Defines additional free disk space created in t
 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."
 INC_PR[doc] = "Helps define the recipe revision for recipes that share a common include file."
-INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE[doc] = "Specifies a space-separated list of license names (as they would appear in LICENSE) that should be excluded from the build."
+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 '*GPLv3'"
 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."