README: Add license badge and add Wikipedia link to C News

The C News sources are referenced in the Wikipedia article, which is
useful to follow-up the license origins.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Editline Editline
======== ========
[![Travis Status]][Travis] [![Coverity Status]][Coverity Scan] [![License Badge][]][License] [![Travis Status]][Travis] [![Coverity Status]][Coverity Scan]
Table of Contents Table of Contents
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any program to provide command line editing and history functions. It any program to provide command line editing and history functions. It
is call compatible with the [FSF readline][] library, but at a fraction is call compatible with the [FSF readline][] library, but at a fraction
of the size, and as a result fewer features. It is also distributed of the size, and as a result fewer features. It is also distributed
under a much more liberal [LICENSE][]. under a much more liberal [License][].
The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (ncurses not needed!), and The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (ncurses not needed!), and
the free license should make this library interesting to many embedded the free license should make this library interesting to many embedded
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This [line editing][] library was created by [Rich Salz][] and Simmule This [line editing][] library was created by [Rich Salz][] and Simmule
Turner and in 1992. It is distributed under a “C News-like” license, Turner and in 1992. It is distributed with a “[C News][]-like” license,
similar to the [BSD license][]. Rich's latest version is however under similar to the [BSD license][]. Rich's current version is however under
the Apache license. For details on the licensing terms of this version the Apache license. For details on the licensing terms of this version
of the software, see [LICENSE][]. of the software, see [License][].
This version of the editline library was forked from the [Minix 3][] This version of the editline library was forked from the [Minix 3][]
source tree and is *not* related to the similarily named NetBSD version source tree and is *not* related to the similarily named NetBSD version
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[line editing]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/doc/README [line editing]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/doc/README
[release tarball]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/releases [release tarball]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/releases
[maintainer]: http://troglobit.com [maintainer]: http://troglobit.com
[LICENSE]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/LICENSE [C News]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_News
[TODO.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/TODO.md [TODO.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/TODO.md
[ChangeLog.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/ChangeLog.md [ChangeLog.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
[FSF readline]: http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/ [FSF readline]: http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/
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[Heimdal]: http://www.h5l.org [Heimdal]: http://www.h5l.org
[Festival]: http://festvox.org/festival/ [Festival]: http://festvox.org/festival/
[Steve Tell]: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tell/dist.html [Steve Tell]: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tell/dist.html
[License]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/LICENSE
[License Badge]: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-C%20News-orange.svg
[Travis]: https://travis-ci.org/troglobit/editline [Travis]: https://travis-ci.org/troglobit/editline
[Travis Status]: https://travis-ci.org/troglobit/editline.png?branch=master [Travis Status]: https://travis-ci.org/troglobit/editline.png?branch=master
[Coverity Scan]: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/2982 [Coverity Scan]: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/2982