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
========
[![Travis Status]][Travis] [![Coverity Status]][Coverity Scan]
[![License Badge][]][License] [![Travis Status]][Travis] [![Coverity Status]][Coverity Scan]
Table of Contents
@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ This is a small [line editing][] library. It can be linked into almost
any program to provide command line editing and history functions. It
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
under a much more liberal [LICENSE][].
under a much more liberal [License][].
The small size (<30k), lack of dependencies (ncurses not needed!), and
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
Turner and in 1992. It is distributed under a “C News-like” license,
similar to the [BSD license][]. Rich's latest version is however under
Turner and in 1992. It is distributed with a “[C News][]-like” license,
similar to the [BSD license][]. Rich's current version is however under
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][]
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
[release tarball]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/releases
[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
[ChangeLog.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
[FSF readline]: http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/
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[Heimdal]: http://www.h5l.org
[Festival]: http://festvox.org/festival/
[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 Status]: https://travis-ci.org/troglobit/editline.png?branch=master
[Coverity Scan]: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/2982