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[5/8] ref-manual/variables.rst: document the SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE variable

Message ID 20260302-release-notes-6-0-v1-5-9662dee58591@bootlin.com
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Series Update the documentation for 6.0 (Wrynose) | expand

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Antonin Godard March 2, 2026, 9:37 a.m. UTC 
Document the SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE variable, added by commit
bb21c6a429a2 ("spdx30_tasks: Add concluded license support with
SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE") in OE-Core.

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
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 documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
index 579faf7be..f8056b03d 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst
@@ -9194,6 +9194,22 @@  system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       (+ 0.07\% with the tested image), compared to just enabling
       :term:`SPDX_INCLUDE_SOURCES`.
 
+   :term:`SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE`
+      The :term:`SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE` variable allows overriding the
+      ``hasConcludedLicense`` object to individual SBOM packages. This can be
+      used when the license of a package was determined to be different than the
+      original license string value, after analysis.
+
+      This variable can be set in two ways:
+
+      -  For the entire recipe::
+
+            SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE = "MIT & Apache-2.0"
+
+      -  For an individual package produced by the recipe:
+
+            SPDX_CONCLUDED_LICENSE:${PN} = "MIT & Apache-2.0"
+
    :term:`SPDX_CUSTOM_ANNOTATION_VARS`
       This option allows to associate `SPDX annotations
       <https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/annotations/>`__ to a recipe,