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Add allowed cases for restricted licenses in docs.

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Adding in information about GPL/LGPL licences that are allowed for non-shipped dependencies and chromium. This info comes from Dash (CC'd).

Change-Id: Icf00b57d8f204b751f6ace69a0bdcd33bada989c
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/6229210
Reviewed-by: Jiewei Qian <qjw@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Jordan Brown <rop@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rachael Newitt <renewitt@google.com>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1415972}
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Make sure you understand the license terms before checking in a dependency, and
when making any local modifications or forks.
The following restricted licenses are allowed under the following circumstances
(this is not a definitive list):
* GPL licenses are allowed for all non-shipped dependencies.
* LGPLv2.1 is always okay as long as it is part of the Chromium binary.
## Get a review
All third party additions and substantive changes like re-licensing need the