Update license and copyright info

Remove non-license explanatory text from LICENSE.txt.

Create CONTRIBUTING file with instructions and notes for contributors.

This change relates to issue #412
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Alan Green 2020-07-01 17:29:30 -04:00 committed by whitequark
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CONTRIBUTIONS and CODE REVIEWS
We love contributions from the community. Please send pull requests and raise
issues! All code submissions require review. We use GitHub pull requests for
this purpose.
COPYRIGHTS and LICENSE
nMigen is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license, which is contained in the
LICENSE.txt file.
All authors retain copyright ownership of their contributions.
Authors should note that all contributions are licensed under the 2-clause BSD
license.
CONTRIBUTORS
The complete list of contributors is contained within the git repository.
Tools such as the git log command can be used to see all contributions and
contributors.

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Copyright (C) 2019-2020 whitequark
Copyright (C) 2011-2019 M-Labs Limited
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
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ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Other authors retain ownership of their contributions. If a submission can
reasonably be considered independently copyrightable, it's yours and we
encourage you to claim it with appropriate copyright notices. This submission
then falls under the "otherwise noted" category. All submissions are strongly
encouraged to use the two-clause BSD license reproduced above.