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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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<listitem><para><emphasis><filename>LICENSE</filename>:</emphasis> <listitem><para><emphasis><filename>LICENSE</filename>:</emphasis>
This variable specifies the license for the software. This variable specifies the license for the software.
If you do not know the license under which 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. source code and look for that information.
Typical files containing this information include Typical files containing this information include
<filename>COPYING</filename>, <filename>COPYING</filename>,
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<filename>README</filename> files. <filename>README</filename> files.
You could also find the information near the top of You could also find the information near the top of
a source file. 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 For example, given a piece of software licensed under
the GNU General Public License version 2, you would the GNU General Public License version 2, you would
set <filename>LICENSE</filename> as follows: set <filename>LICENSE</filename> as follows:
<literallayout class='monospaced'> <literallayout class='monospaced'>
LICENSE = "GPLv2" LICENSE = "GPLv2"
</literallayout></para> </literallayout></para>
<para>The licenses you specify with <para>The licenses you specify within
<filename>LICENSE</filename> be any name as long as <filename>LICENSE</filename> can have any name as long
you do not use spaces. 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 For standard licenses, use the names of the files in
<filename>meta/files/common-licenses/</filename> <filename>meta/files/common-licenses/</filename>
or the <filename>SPDXLICENSEMAP</filename> flag names or the <filename>SPDXLICENSEMAP</filename> flag names