2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index 227f1f5a75..d0e669db00 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ python () {
                 if unskipped_pkgs:
                     for pkg in skipped_pkgs:
                         bb.debug(1, "Skipping the package %s at do_rootfs because of incompatible license(s): %s" % (pkg, ' '.join(skipped_pkgs[pkg])))
-                        d.setVar('LICENSE_EXCLUSION-' + pkg, ' '.join(skipped_pkgs[pkg]))
+                        d.setVar('_exclude_incompatible-' + pkg, ' '.join(skipped_pkgs[pkg]))
                     for pkg in unskipped_pkgs:
                         bb.debug(1, "Including the package %s" % pkg)
                 else:
diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index f4a661ba25..f822258150 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -1468,10 +1468,10 @@ python populate_packages () {
     os.umask(oldumask)
     os.chdir(workdir)
 
-    # Handle LICENSE_EXCLUSION
+    # Handle excluding packages with incompatible licenses
     package_list = []
     for pkg in packages:
-        licenses = d.getVar('LICENSE_EXCLUSION-' + pkg)
+        licenses = d.getVar('_exclude_incompatible-' + pkg)
         if licenses:
             msg = "Excluding %s from packaging as it has incompatible license(s): %s" % (pkg, licenses)
             oe.qa.handle_error("incompatible-license", msg, d)
@@ -2353,7 +2353,7 @@ def gen_packagevar(d, pkgvars="PACKAGEVARS"):
 
         # Ensure that changes to INCOMPATIBLE_LICENSE re-run do_package for
         # affected recipes.
-        ret.append('LICENSE_EXCLUSION-%s' % p)
+        ret.append('_exclude_incompatible-%s' % p)
     return " ".join(ret)
 
 PACKAGE_PREPROCESS_FUNCS ?= ""