update about Copyright law when it comes to facts

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 All programs are written by Libre-SOC team members are LGPLv3+.
 However the specification and the CSV files came from their
-respective Copyright holders (IBM, OpenPOWER Foundation, Microwatt)
+respective Copyright holders (IBM, OpenPOWER Foundation, Microwatt).
+
+Bear in mind that the *facts* in a specification may not be copyrighted,
+however the document (or source code) *containing* those facts can be and
+is copyrightable.  In this repository, the **facts** were extracted
+(from Microwatt and from the OpenPOWER ISA Technical Specification).
+
+Therefore, you, likewise, may *also* extract the **facts** from this
+source code, but for the actual source code itself you must respect the
+terms and conditions of the LGPLv3+ License in which those facts happen
+to be embedded.
 
 # Other Unit Tests