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

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: d1f8fb672aeba8b163cc79d5043e6ffcddc9db25)

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

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index f0836e8b1d..eaf840d4d1 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -9941,6 +9941,28 @@
                 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>
                 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