Add LICENSE and COPYRIGHT files

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diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index 6613d6c..eec7815 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -1 +1,11 @@
-Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Code Synthesis Ltd.
+Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Code Synthesis Ltd and the build2 contributors.
+
+For the full list of contributors, see the revision history in version control
+system.
+
+The copyright for the code is held by the contributors of the code. The code
+is licensed under permissive open source licensing terms (see the accompanying
+LICENSE file). When you contribute code to this project, you license it under
+these terms. Before contributing please make sure these terms are acceptable
+to you (or the organization that employs you) and that you are the author of
+the code being contributed.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ab7903
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+MIT License
+
+See the accompanying COPYRIGHT file for the copyright information.
+
+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.