dev-manual: Edits to "Maintaining Open Source License Compliance During Your Product's Lifecycle" section.

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Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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There are other requirements beyond the scope of these
three and the methods described in this section
(e.g. the mechanism through which source code is distributed).
</para>
<para>
As different organizations have different methods of complying with
open source licensing, this section is not meant to imply that
there is only one single way to meet your compliance obligations,
but rather to describe one method of achieving compliance.
</para>
<para>
The remainder of this section describes methods supported to meet the
previously mentioned three requirements.
Once you take steps to meet these requirements,
and prior to releasing images, sources, and the build system,
you should audit all artifacts to ensure completeness.
The Yocto Project generates a license manifest during
image creation that is located
in <filename>${DEPLOY_DIR}/licenses/&lt;image_name-datestamp&gt;</filename>
to assist with any audits.
<note>
The Yocto Project generates a license manifest during
image creation that is located
in <filename>${DEPLOY_DIR}/licenses/&lt;image_name-datestamp&gt;</filename>
to assist with any audits.
</note>
</para>
<section id='providing-the-source-code'>