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overview-manual: licensing section fixes

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Remove the reference to the GPL license, unnecessary
in this part of the manual and pointing to a wrong
link (LGPL instead of GPL).

Anyway, we have no authority to say that the MIT license
is compatible with the GPL.

Also provide details about the MIT license through Wikipedia,
instead of just the raw license text with no explanations
through opensource.org.

(From yocto-docs rev: a09fcd9d850d2b52f40d953b11412c9568a77db7)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Michael Opdenacker 2022-04-25 19:06:47 +02:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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@ -616,13 +616,9 @@ this history, you can find basic information here:
In general, the Yocto Project is broadly licensed under the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) License. MIT licensing
permits the reuse of software within proprietary software as long as the
license is distributed with that software. MIT is also compatible with
the GNU General Public License (GPL). Patches to the Yocto Project
license is distributed with that software. Patches to the Yocto Project
follow the upstream licensing scheme. You can find information on the
MIT license
`here <https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>`__. You can
find information on the GNU GPL
`here <https://www.opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0>`__.
MIT license `here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License>`__.
When you build an image using the Yocto Project, the build process uses
a known list of licenses to ensure compliance. You can find this list in