Clarify license requirements for contributions.

Originally committed as revision 9626 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
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@ -1550,6 +1550,11 @@ should also be avoided if they don't make the code easier to understand.
@section Development Policy

@enumerate
+@item
+   Contributions should be licensed under the LGPL 2.1, including an
+   "or any later version" clause, or the MIT license.  GPL 2 including
+   an "or any later version" clause is also acceptable, but LGPL is
+   preferred.
@item
   You must not commit code which breaks FFmpeg! (Meaning unfinished but
   enabled code which breaks compilation or compiles but does not work or