[tor-bugs] #33773 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Add Tor Browser-specific licenses in about:license

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#33773: Add Tor Browser-specific licenses in about:license
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     Reporter:  sysrqb                    |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
                                          |  TorBrowserTeam202006
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 This idea came out of #33771 and #33772. GeKo mentioned that we don't need
 to ship a specific license for NSS because it is covered by
 `about:license`, and we could use `about:license` for the additional
 licenses we must ship, as well. Currently those Tor Browser-specific
 licenses are controlled by tor-browser-build and they are included as text
 files at build-time. Extending `about:license` is a good idea.

 The main disadvantage I see is downstream projects who take a tor browser
 package and re-use all of the tor parts but they don't use the browser. We
 could achieve this by continuing with adding licenses in text files and
 then patching them into tor-browser's `toolkit/content/license.html` at
 build time. I'm not very excited about the additional complexity this
 would require, though.

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