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license: clarify the licensing for the project's metadata

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Presently, the recipe files in meta-freescale are under an ambiguous
license. There is a EULA file at the root, but it's clearly not meant
to apply as the default license as it is only explicitly called out in
a few recipes and mirrors the language of the LSDK. The yocto upstream
projects are meant to be distributed under a more liberal license than
the LSDK.

There are several licenses listed is custom-licenses/, but those again
only apply to specific recipes (e.g. NXP-Binary-EULA).

The license for the recipes themselves (and for the layer metadata, etc.)
is not clear and is problematic when attempting to host a mirror of this
code. So, add a LICENSE file that describes this situation, and provide
a reference copy of the MIT license (taken from poky/meta/).

Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@waymo.com>
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
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Dima Zavin 2018-12-19 00:40:13 -08:00 committed by Otavio Salvador
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

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Different components of meta-freescale are under different licenses (a mix
of MIT and proprietary). Please see:
COPYING.MIT (MIT)
custom-licenses/* (Various EULAs, included by recipes)
All metadata is MIT licensed unless otherwise stated. Source code and binaries
included in tree for individual recipes are under the LICENSE stated in
the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.
License information for any other files is either explicitly stated
or defaults to GPL version 2.