diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license-alias.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license-alias.bb
index e0b4e13c26a..1af99e78091 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license-alias.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license-alias.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Recipe with an alias of an SPDX license"
 DESCRIPTION = "Is licensed with an alias of an SPDX license to be used for testing"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license.bb
index 282f5c28751..6fdc58fd300 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-license.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Recipe with an SPDX license"
 DESCRIPTION = "Is licensed with an SPDX license to be used for testing"
 LICENSE = "GPL-3.0-only"
+
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb
index 9709892644c..47bd8d7c00e 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-licenses.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Recipe with multiple SPDX licenses"
 DESCRIPTION = "Is licensed with multiple SPDX licenses to be used for testing"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only & GPL-3.0-only & LGPL-3.0-only"
+
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-nonspdx-license.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-nonspdx-license.bb
index 35af0966efd..142d73158e6 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-nonspdx-license.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/license/incompatible-nonspdx-license.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY = "Recipe with a non-SPDX license"
 DESCRIPTION = "Is licensed with a non-SPDX license to be used for testing"
 LICENSE = "FooLicense"
+
+EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"