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Add plain MIT text into LICENSE and add NOTICE

Tomasz Maczukin requested to merge update-licensing-information into master

Follow-up for !76 (merged). For additional context please read gitlab-org/gitlab-runner!1132 (comment 129306710).

https://github.com/benbalter/licensee, which is commonly used, also by GitLab, to detect licenses have problems with detecting a proper license, when additional text is added.

Because of this we've made a decision, that:

  • LICENSE file will contain the plain text of the MIT license, having only the copyright years and owners as the custom change
  • NOTICE file will contain additional info, that MIT license is applied only to our own software and that any other software included into this project is licensed under own license.

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