3 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/licenses.conf b/meta/conf/licenses.conf
index 1058084d86..7b01c57632 100644
--- a/meta/conf/licenses.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/licenses.conf
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "CC-BY-SA-1.0 CC-BY-SA-2.0 CC-BY-SA-2.5 CC-BY-SA-3.0
 SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "CDDL-1.0 CECILL-1.0 CECILL-2.0 CECILL-B CECILL-C"
 SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "ClArtistic CPAL-1.0 CPL-1.0 CUA-OPL-1.0 DSSSL"
 SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "ECL-1.0 ECL-2.0 eCos-2.0 EDL-1.0 EFL-1.0 EFL-2.0"
-SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "Elfutils-Exception Entessa EPL-1.0 EPL-2.0 ErlPL-1.1"
+SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "Entessa EPL-1.0 EPL-2.0 ErlPL-1.1"
 SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "EUDatagrid EUPL-1.0 EUPL-1.1 Fair Frameworx-1.0"
 SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "FreeType GFDL-1.1 GFDL-1.2 GFDL-1.3 GPL-1.0"
 SRC_DISTRIBUTE_LICENSES += "GPL-2.0 GPL-2.0-with-autoconf-exception"
diff --git a/meta/files/common-licenses/Elfutils-Exception b/meta/files/common-licenses/Elfutils-Exception
deleted file mode 100644
index 627d769126..0000000000
--- a/meta/files/common-licenses/Elfutils-Exception
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-   This file describes the limits of the Exception under which you are allowed
-   to distribute Non-GPL Code in linked combination with Red Hat elfutils.
-   For the full text of the license, please see one of the header files
-   included with the source distribution or the file COPYING found in the
-   top level directory of the source.
-
-   The Approved Interfaces are the functions declared in the files:
-
-   libelf.h
-   libdw.h
-   libdwfl.h
-
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.176.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.176.bb
index fd901c9c9e..cd824e2901 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.176.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.176.bb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 SUMMARY = "Utilities and libraries for handling compiled object files"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://sourceware.org/elfutils"
 SECTION = "base"
-LICENSE = "(GPLv3 & Elfutils-Exception)"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv3+ & GPLv3+"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
 DEPENDS = "libtool bzip2 zlib virtual/libintl"
 DEPENDS_append_libc-musl = " argp-standalone fts "
@@ -53,6 +53,18 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
 # Package utilities separately
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-binutils libelf libasm libdw"
+
+# shared libraries are licensed GPLv2 or GPLv3+, binaries GPLv3+
+# according to NEWS file:
+# "The license is now GPLv2/LGPLv3+ for the libraries and GPLv3+ for stand-alone
+# programs. There is now also a formal CONTRIBUTING document describing how to
+# submit patches."
+LICENSE_${PN}-binutils = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE_${PN} = "GPLv3+"
+LICENSE_libelf = "GPLv2 | LGPLv3+"
+LICENSE_libasm = "GPLv2 | LGPLv3+"
+LICENSE_libdw = "GPLv2 | LGPLv3+"
+
 FILES_${PN}-binutils = "\
     ${bindir}/eu-addr2line \
     ${bindir}/eu-ld \