licenses: Fix canonical license for 'or-later' handling

GPLv2 and GPLv2+ are two difference licenses with different meanings
and we can't just pretend they're the same thing. Change the code
to treat them separately.

(From OE-Core rev: d1baf74ac92fe0c8c32dff101fd77d77f70fd583)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/license.py b/meta/lib/oe/license.py
index c1274a61de..665d32ecbb 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/license.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/license.py
@@ -10,14 +10,7 @@ from fnmatch import fnmatchcase as fnmatch
 def license_ok(license, dont_want_licenses):
     """ Return False if License exist in dont_want_licenses else True """
     for dwl in dont_want_licenses:
-        # If you want to exclude license named generically 'X', we
-        # surely want to exclude 'X+' as well.  In consequence, we
-        # will exclude a trailing '+' character from LICENSE in
-        # case INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE is not a 'X+' license.
-        lic = license
-        if not re.search(r'\+$', dwl):
-            lic = re.sub(r'\+', '', license)
-        if fnmatch(lic, dwl):
+        if fnmatch(license, dwl):
             return False
     return True