README: Move copyright and license statements to a LICENSE file

This is what git hosting services like GitLab expect.

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+Copyright (C) 2013-2020  Codethink Limited
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+We carry 2 slightly modified git-fast-import frontends:
+
+lorry.tar-importer which is based on
+https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
+
+and lorry.zip-importer, which is based on
+https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py
+
+all parts of git are under a GPLv2 compatible license,
+see the git source code for more details.