diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index e65a722..4ac809a 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -401,8 +401,21 @@ python () {
                 import re
                 this_license = d.getVar('LICENSE', 1)
                 if this_license and re.search(dont_want_license, this_license):
-                    bb.note("SKIPPING %s because it's %s" % (pn, this_license))
-                    raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with license %s" % this_license)
+		    this_license_no_spaces = re.sub(r'\s', '', this_license)
+		    licenses = re.split('[|]', this_license_no_spaces)
+		    if len(licenses) != 0:
+			good_license=""
+		        for onelicense in licenses:
+			    if not re.search(dont_want_license, onelicense):
+				good_license = onelicense
+			if good_license == "":
+			    bb.note("SKIPPING %s because it's %s" % (pn, this_license))
+			    raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with license %s" % this_license)
+			else:
+			    bb.note("NOT SKIPPING %s because it's %s which contains %s" % (pn, this_license, good_license))
+		    else:
+			bb.note("SKIPPING %s because it's %s" % (pn, this_license))
+			raise bb.parse.SkipPackage("incompatible with license %s" % this_license)
 
     srcuri = d.getVar('SRC_URI', 1)
     # Svn packages should DEPEND on subversion-native