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dev-manual, ref-manual: Updated licensing text information.

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Fixes [YOCTO #8634]

To clear up the behavior the COPY_LIC_DIRS, COPY_LIC_MANIFEST,
and LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE variable behaviors, I updated the
glossary descriptions of the variables.  Also, added more info
to the "Providing License Text" section in the dev-manual.  Tied
everything together with good referencing.

(From yocto-docs rev: e7b2a1ed29dcd9d572b71f756e7705e6499a05ac)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark
2016-02-15 10:09:15 -08:00
committed by Richard Purdie
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@@ -9977,6 +9977,25 @@
Adding these statements to the configuration file ensures
that the licenses collected during package generation
are included on your image.
<note>
<para>Setting all three variables to "1" results in the
image having two copies of the same license file.
One copy resides in
<filename>/usr/share/common-licenses</filename> and
the other resides in
<filename>/usr/share/license</filename>.</para>
<para>The reason for this behavior is because
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-COPY_LIC_DIRS'><filename>COPY_LIC_DIRS</filename></ulink>
and
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-COPY_LIC_MANIFEST'><filename>COPY_LIC_MANIFEST</filename></ulink>
add a copy of the license when the image is built but do not
offer a path for adding licenses for newly installed packages
to an image.
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE'><filename>LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE</filename></ulink>
adds a separate package and an upgrade path for adding
licenses to an image.</para>
</note>
</para>
<para>
@@ -9986,15 +10005,6 @@
of the license information with source as defined by the GPL
and other open source licenses.
</para>
<para>
See the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE'><filename>LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE</filename></ulink>,
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-COPY_LIC_DIRS'><filename>COPY_LIC_DIRS</filename></ulink>,
and
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-COPY_LIC_MANIFEST'><filename>COPY_LIC_MANIFEST</filename></ulink>
variable descriptions for more information.
</para>
</section>
<section id='providing-compilation-scripts-and-source-code-modifications'>