Update the COPYING.LIB file and references to it.

Discussion of these changes can be found on the Mercury developers
mailing list archives from June 2018.

COPYING.LIB:
    Add a special linking exception to the LGPL.

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    Update references to COPYING.LIB.

    Clean up some minor errors that have accumulated in copyright
    messages.
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Mark Brown
2018-06-09 17:41:25 +10:00
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@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@ Copyright (C) 2013-2018 The Mercury team.
The compiler and tools are distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. See the file COPYING for copying permission.
The Mercury libraries and runtime (the files in the library, trace,
browser, ssdb, mdbcomp, runtime and java/runtime subdirectories) are
distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License.
See the file COPYING.LIB for copying permissions for those files.
The Mercury core libraries (the files in the browser, java/runtime,
library, mdbcomp, runtime, ssdb and trace subdirectories) are
distributed under the terms specified in the file COPYING.LIB.
If those licensing arrangements are not satisfactory, please
contact us. We are willing to offer alternative arrangements,