Add license file and copyright notes

After discussion with Rich Felker and other contributors, it's clear
that we want to license this project under the MIT/Expat license.
However, we need to be clear that we're not claiming to license the
binary artifacts, as those retain the licenses of the upstream
projects.  Similarly, the patches, to the extent that there is any
copyright interest in them at all, retain the licenses from the
upstream projects.

We've added language in the README and in a new `COPYRIGHT` file to
make all of this clear.

Ref: #25 #30 #80
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Copyright Notes
===============
The musl-cross-make build tools and documentation are licensed under
the MIT/Expat license as found in the `LICENSE` file.
Note that this license does not cover the patches (`patches/`) or
resulting binary artifacts.
Each patch (`patches/`) is distributed under the terms of the license
of the upstream project to which it is applied.
Similarly, any resulting binary artifacts produced using this build
tooling retain the original licensing from the upstream projects. The
authors of musl-cross-make do not make any additional copyright claims
to these artifacts.

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Copyright (c) 2015-2020 Rich Felker, et al.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

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Some functionality (SH/FDPIC, and support for J2 specific features) is Some functionality (SH/FDPIC, and support for J2 specific features) is
presently only available with gcc 5.2.0 and later, and binutils 2.25.1 presently only available with gcc 5.2.0 and later, and binutils 2.25.1
and later. and later.
License
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The musl-cross-make build tools and documentation are licensed under
the MIT/Expat license as found in the `LICENSE` file.
Note that this license does not cover the patches (`patches/`) or
resulting binary artifacts.
Each patch (`patches/`) is distributed under the terms of the license
of the upstream project to which it is applied.
Similarly, any resulting binary artifacts produced using this build
tooling retain the original licensing from the upstream projects. The
authors of musl-cross-make do not make any additional copyright claims
to these artifacts.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution submitted for
inclusion in musl-cross-make by you shall be licensed as above without
any additional terms or conditions.