dev-manual: Edits to the "Licensing" section.

Applied review comments to this section per Paul Eggleton.
Minor word changes.

(From yocto-docs rev: 5130559003778e3b613d3d480350d041dfd10fcd)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Scott Rifenbark 2014-01-09 07:58:24 -06:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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<listitem><para><emphasis><filename>LICENSE</filename>:</emphasis>
This variable specifies the license for the software.
If you do not know the license under which the software
you are building is distributed, you can go to the
you are building is distributed, you should go to the
source code and look for that information.
Typical files containing this information include
<filename>COPYING</filename>,
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<filename>README</filename> files.
You could also find the information near the top of
a source file.
The key is to find something that states the public
license needed for the software.
For example, given a piece of software licensed under
the GNU General Public License version 2, you would
set <filename>LICENSE</filename> as follows:
<literallayout class='monospaced'>
LICENSE = "GPLv2"
</literallayout></para>
<para>The licenses you specify with
<filename>LICENSE</filename> be any name as long as
you do not use spaces.
<para>The licenses you specify within
<filename>LICENSE</filename> can have any name as long
as you do not use spaces, since spaces are used as
separators between license names.
For standard licenses, use the names of the files in
<filename>meta/files/common-licenses/</filename>
or the <filename>SPDXLICENSEMAP</filename> flag names