From: Stefano Tondo <[email protected]>

Add hasConcludedLicense relationship to SBOM packages with support for
manual license conclusion override via SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE variable.

The concluded license represents the license determination after manual
or external license analysis. This should be set manually in recipes or
layers when:

1. Manual license review identifies differences from the declared LICENSE
2. External license scanning tools detect additional license information
3. Legal review concludes a different license applies

The hasConcludedLicense relationship is ONLY added to the SBOM when
SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE is explicitly set. When unset or empty, no
concluded license is included in the SBOM, correctly indicating that
no license analysis was performed (per SPDX semantics).

When differences from the declared LICENSE are found, users should:

1. Preferably: Correct the LICENSE field in the recipe and contribute
   the fix upstream to OpenEmbedded
2. Alternatively: Set SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE locally in your layer when
   upstream contribution is not immediately possible or when the license
   conclusion is environment-specific

This variable allows tracking license analysis results in the SBOM while
maintaining the recipe LICENSE field for build system compatibility.

The variable is initialized in spdx-common.bbclass with comprehensive
documentation explaining its purpose, usage guidelines, and examples.

Example usage in recipe or layer:
  SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE = "MIT & Apache-2.0"

Signed-off-by: Stefano Tondo <[email protected]>
---
 meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass | 14 ++++++++++++++
 meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py      | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass b/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass
index ca0416d1c7..504e6fba45 100644
--- a/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/spdx-common.bbclass
@@ -36,6 +36,20 @@ SPDX_LICENSES ??= "${COREBASE}/meta/files/spdx-licenses.json"
 
 SPDX_CUSTOM_ANNOTATION_VARS ??= ""
 
+SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE ??= ""
+SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE[doc] = "The license concluded by manual or external \
+    license analysis. This should only be set when explicit license analysis \
+    (manual review or external scanning tools) has been performed and a 
license \
+    conclusion has been reached. When unset or empty, no concluded license is \
+    included in the SBOM, indicating that no license analysis was performed. \
+    When differences from the declared LICENSE are found, the preferred 
approach \
+    is to correct the LICENSE field in the recipe and contribute the fix 
upstream \
+    to OpenEmbedded. Use this variable locally only when upstream contribution 
is \
+    not immediately possible or when the license conclusion is 
environment-specific. \
+    This allows tracking license analysis results in SBOM while maintaining 
recipe \
+    LICENSE field for build compatibility. \
+    Example: SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE = 'MIT & Apache-2.0'"
+
 SPDX_MULTILIB_SSTATE_ARCHS ??= "${SSTATE_ARCHS}"
 
 python () {
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py b/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py
index 286a08ed9b..885b9c5549 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oe/spdx30_tasks.py
@@ -712,6 +712,24 @@ def create_spdx(d):
                 oe.spdx30.RelationshipType.hasDeclaredLicense,
                 [oe.sbom30.get_element_link_id(package_spdx_license)],
             )
+            
+            # Add concluded license relationship if manually set
+            # Only add when license analysis has been explicitly performed
+            concluded_license_str = d.getVar("SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE")
+            if concluded_license_str:
+                # Use explicitly set concluded license
+                if concluded_license_str != package_license and 
concluded_license_str != d.getVar("LICENSE"):
+                    concluded_spdx_license = add_license_expression(
+                        d, build_objset, concluded_license_str, license_data
+                    )
+                else:
+                    concluded_spdx_license = package_spdx_license
+                
+                pkg_objset.new_relationship(
+                    [spdx_package],
+                    oe.spdx30.RelationshipType.hasConcludedLicense,
+                    [oe.sbom30.get_element_link_id(concluded_spdx_license)],
+                )
 
             # NOTE: CVE Elements live in the recipe collection
             all_cves = set()
-- 
2.52.0

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