ref-manual: document new unlisted-pkg-lics insane-skip qa check

The new unlisted-pkg-lics INSANE_SKIP QA check was introduced and need
proper documentation.

This QA check makes sure all licenses listed for all packages built by a
recipe are declared in the recipe LICENSE variable.

(From yocto-docs rev: a50e0628f3d40f9103c9a6ecccde61ad6d7f21c6)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@streamunlimited.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
index f9bbddd724..f8920d8c1b 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-classes.xml
@@ -1742,6 +1742,12 @@ This check was removed for YP 2.3 release
                 </note>
                 </para></listitem>
 -->
+            <listitem><para><emphasis><filename>unlisted-pkg-lics:</filename></emphasis>
+                Checks that all declared licenses applying for a package are also
+                declared on the recipe level (i.e. any license in
+                <filename>LICENSE_*</filename> should appear in
+                <link linkend='var-LICENSE'><filename>LICENSE</filename></link>).
+                </para></listitem>
             <listitem><para><emphasis><filename>useless-rpaths:</filename></emphasis>
                 Checks for dynamic library load paths (rpaths) in the binaries that
                 by default on a standard system are searched by the linker (e.g.
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
index 515106ae68..424a19c59d 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
@@ -1170,6 +1170,31 @@ can be found then it should be implemented.  I can't find one at the moment.
             </listitem>
         </itemizedlist>
     </para>
+
+    <para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+            <listitem>
+                <para id='qa-issue-unlisted-pkg-lics'>
+                    <code>
+     LICENSE_&lt;packagename&gt; includes licenses (&lt;licenses&gt;) that are not listed in LICENSE [unlisted-pkg-lics]
+                    </code>
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                    The <link linkend='var-LICENSE'><filename>LICENSE</filename></link>
+                    of the recipe should be a superset of all the licenses of
+                    all packages produced by this recipe.
+                    In other words, any license in <filename>LICENSE_*</filename>
+                    should also appear in
+                    <link linkend='var-LICENSE'><filename>LICENSE</filename></link>.
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                    &nbsp;
+                </para>
+            </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+    </para>
 </section>
 
 <section id='configuring-and-disabling-qa-checks'>