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docs: Clarify that repository license choices also apply to projects
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Also slightly improve the sentence's wording in general.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <[email protected]>
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sschuberth committed Dec 13, 2023
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To globally select a license from an SPDX expression, that offers a choice, an SPDX expression for a `given` and a
`choice` must be provided. The `choice` is applied to the whole `given` SPDX expression. With a repository license
choice, the license choice is applied to each package that offers this license as a choice. Not allowing `given` to be
null helps only applying the choice to a wanted `given` as opposed to all licenses with that choice, which could lead to
unwanted choices. The license choices for a project can be overwritten by applying a
choice, the license choice is applied to each project or package that offers this specific license choice. Not allowing
`given` to be null helps only applying the choice to a wanted `given` as opposed to all licenses with that choice, which
could lead to unwanted choices. The license choices for a project can be overwritten by applying a
[license choice to a package](#license-choice-by-package).

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