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edit GitLab license info in regards to CC licensing

Andrea Kao requested to merge eirinikos/gitlab-ce:update-license into master

What does this MR do?

This commit updates the LICENSE file so that it contains only the exact text of the MIT license. It moves the reference to Creative Commons licensing (for the docs) to the README.

Are there points in the code the reviewer needs to double check?

No.

Why was this MR needed?

GitHub uses a library called Licensee to identify a project's license type. It shows this information in the status bar and via the API if it can unambiguously identify the license.

My previous MR (edit GitLab license info so that GitHub recognizes it) updated the LICENSE and README files so that Licensee was able to detect GitLab-CE's MIT license.

A recent MR added a note to the LICENSE file in regards to the CC licensing for GitLab documentation. Because the LICENSE file no longer contains only the text of the MIT license, Licensee isn't currently able to detect the repo's license type.

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

What are the relevant issue numbers?

N/A

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