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Merge topic 'project-license-doc' into release-4.2

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ebf0a359ad Help: Improve documentation of project SPDX_LICENSE

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !11348
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Brad King
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@@ -127,6 +127,17 @@ The options are:
See the :prop_tgt:`SPDX_LICENSE` property for specifying the license(s) on
individual software artifacts.
.. note::
The project license is *not* used to initialize the
:prop_tgt:`SPDX_LICENSE` property of individual targets. This allows the
package license and default component license, which are specified when
exporting package information, to be meaningful. Only |CPS| exports make
use of this information.
The project license *is* inherited as the package license in some cases.
Refer to the ``PROJECT`` option and related documentation of the
:command:`export` and :command:`install` commands for more information.
.. _SPDX: https://spdx.dev/
.. |SPDX| replace:: System Package Data Exchange
@@ -182,8 +193,6 @@ intended for use as default values in package metadata and documentation.
The :command:`export` and :command:`install` commands use these accordingly
when generating |CPS| package descriptions.
.. |CPS| replace:: Common Package Specification
.. _`Code Injection`:
Code Injection
@@ -252,3 +261,5 @@ call exists, CMake will issue a warning and pretend there is a
other commands whose behavior they may affect and for this reason the
``project()`` command will issue a warning if this order is not kept.
See also policy :policy:`CMP0000`.
.. |CPS| replace:: Common Package Specification