Improve description of license of definitions.units

The clarification "GPL 3.0 or later" is only present in the header of the file itself. Hence, the COPYING file does not give the complete license information. Co-authored-by: Andrius Merkys <[email protected]>
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@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ If this is a pre-release, implementations are also encouraged to support the lat
 The OPTIMADE standard refers to a specific version of the `definition.units` database included with the source distribution of GNU Units.
 This file is included in the OPTIMADE repository under the subdirectory [units](units).
 The file is licensed separately from other files in the repository: it is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
-The full license text that applies to that file is included in the file [COPYING](units/COPYING) in that directory.
+Full information on how the file is licensed is available in the [header of the file](units/definition.units) and the license file included in that directory, [COPYING](units/COPYING).
 
-The following does not constitute legal advice, however, we believe implementations under other licenses can use this file if:
+The following does not constitute legal advice; however, we believe implementations under other licenses can use this file if:
 
 - The file is distributed separated from other source files in a way that makes it clear that it is part of the GNU Units software and is licensed under the GPL.
   (For example, as done in this repository: in a separate subdirectory with its own readme and license files.)

diff --git a/units/README.md b/units/README.md
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ It has been extracted from the source distribution of the GNU Units software.
 
 This file is licensed separately from other files in the repository.
 It is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
-The full license text that applies to that file is included in the file [COPYING](COPYING) in the same directory as this README.md file.
+Full information on how the file is licensed is available in the [header of the file](definition.units) and the license file [COPYING](units/COPYING) included in the same directory as this README.md file.