relicense: update COPYRIGHT, LICENSE-*, README, CONTRIBUTING, and NOTICE

This updates Spack's top-level metadata files to reflect the new
Apache-2.0 and MIT licenses.
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Todd Gamblin
2018-10-08 00:26:31 -07:00
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@@ -107,10 +107,25 @@ If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the following paper:
[**The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos**](http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/2015/3723/00/2807623.pdf).
In *Supercomputing 2015 (SC15)*, Austin, Texas, November 15-20 2015. LLNL-CONF-669890.
Release
License
----------------
Spack is released under an LGPL license. For more details see the
NOTICE and LICENSE files.
Spack is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the
Apache License (Version 2.0). Users may choose either license, at their
option.
All new contributions must be made under both the MIT and Apache-2.0
licenses.
13 of Spack's 2,800 packages are still only only available under LGPL-2.1
terms. They will eventually be relicensed, rewritten, or removed as we
work towards 100% Apache2/MIT. To see which package files are still
under the LGPL-2.1 license, run the `spack license list-lgpl` command.
See [LICENSE-MIT](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/LICENSE-MIT),
[LICENSE-APACHE](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/LICENSE-APACHE),
[COPYRIGHT](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/COPYRIGHT), and
[NOTICE](https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/NOTICE) for details.
``LLNL-CODE-647188``