license/copyleft: exception for ast parse

As the standard for LICENSE format is not well defined, we
may well run into issues where LICENSE cannot be parsed via
ast. In cases like this, we need to warn and continue.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Flanagan <elizabeth.flanagan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass b/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass
index 5d9ab1192..2fe524b5f 100644
--- a/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/copyleft_compliance.bbclass
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ def copyleft_should_include(d):
         licenses = oe.license.flattened_licenses(d.getVar('LICENSE', True), choose_licenses)
     except oe.license.InvalidLicense as exc:
         bb.fatal('%s: %s' % (d.getVar('PF', True), exc))
+    except SyntaxError:
+        bb.warn("%s: Failed to parse it's LICENSE field." % (d.getVar('PF', True)))
 
     return all(include_license(lic) for lic in licenses)
 
diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 96fdb4615..4689aaf61 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -231,7 +231,10 @@ python do_populate_lic() {
     try:
         v.visit_string(license_types)
     except oe.license.InvalidLicense as exc:
-        bb.fatal("%s: %s" % (d.getVar('PF', True), exc))
+        bb.fatal('%s: %s' % (d.getVar('PF', True), exc))
+    except SyntaxError:
+        bb.warn("%s: Failed to parse it's LICENSE field." % (d.getVar('PF', True)))
+
 }
 
 SSTATETASKS += "do_populate_lic"