dev-manual: Updated section on adding license text.

Fixes [YOCTO #8634]

I updated the "Providing License Text" section to include some
verbiage on the new CREATE_LICENSE_PACKAGE variable.

(From yocto-docs rev: db2155875dd741000e5f67253486580bba70584f)

Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index b94df4e580..0f006c790d 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -9972,16 +9972,29 @@
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      COPY_LIC_MANIFEST = "1"
      COPY_LIC_DIRS = "1"
+     LICENSE_CREATE_PACKAGE = "1"
                 </literallayout>
                 Adding these statements to the configuration file ensures
                 that the licenses collected during package generation
                 are included on your image.
+            </para>
+
+            <para>
                 As the source archiver has already archived the original
                 unmodified source that contains the license files,
                 you would have already met the requirements for inclusion
                 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'>