Update/clarify core@ licensing issues for the quarter

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<ul>
<li>Importing Concurrency Kit. In consultation with the
Foundation's legal counsel, it was determined that the
relevant patents on the 'Read Copy Update' synchronization
mechanisms have expired, and consequently the import of
selected parts of concurrency kit was approved.</li>
Foundation's legal counsel, it was determined that
importing selected parts of concurrency kit is acceptable,
and has been approved.</li>
<li>The proposal to create a shadow GPLv3 toolchain repository
was put to the community. Ultimately the whole idea has
been rendered largely redundant by faster than anticipated
progress at integrating the latest LLVM toolchain on most of
the interesting system architectures. The goal of a
GPL-free base system is within our grasp.</li>
progress on the external toolchain ports and packages for
those architectures where LLVM is not yet sufficieintly
mature.</li>
<li>Reports that GPL code has been pasted into linuxkpi
sources are under investigation. Core would like to stress
that great care must be taken to avoid inadvertent license
infringement, especially when implementing hardware
interfaces or similar where there is limited scope to invent
new constants or otherwise make it clear this is a novel
implementation.</li>
<li>Concerns were raised about handling GPL code in work in
progress on the linuxkpi shim. This issue is not related to
the FreeBSD svn repository but Core would like to stress
that care must be taken to avoid license infringement and
plans to write a set of guidelines for handling GPL
code.</li>
</ul>
<p>Work on LLVM has thrown up problems with the presence of