[README] Add note about copyright and license notices

Also explain the use of year ranges in copyright notices.

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        * README (Copyright and License Notices): New section.
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2012-01-04 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* README (Copyright and License Notices): New section.
2012-01-03 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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See the DejaGNU documentation for further details.
Copyright and License Notices
=============================
Most files maintained by the GDB Project contain a copyright notice
as well as a license notice, usually at the start of the file.
To reduce the length of copyright notices, consecutive years in the
copyright notice can be combined into a single range. For instance,
the following list of copyright years...
1986, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
... is abbreviated into:
1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1999-2000, 2007-2011
Every year of each range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that
could be listed individually.
(this is for editing this file with GNU emacs)
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