Document and (attempt to) clarify licensing situation

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Miroslav Bendík <miroslav.bendik@gmail.com>
ShadowNinja <shadowninja@minetest.net>
sfan5 <sfan5@live.de>
Rogier <rogier777@gmail.com> (Contributions can be (re)used under one of the following licenses: GPLv2 or higher, LGPLv2 or higher, BSD 2-clause, BSD 3-clause)
Rogier <rogier777@gmail.com>

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Copyright (c) 2013-2014, Miroslav Bendík and various contributors (see AUTHORS)
All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Miroslav Bendík and various contributors (see AUTHORS)
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
This software may be used and copied subject to one or more licenses.
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
IANAL, but it seems to me that:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The original code, (c) Miroslav Bendík contained a file 'LICENSE', stating that
the code was LGPLv2.1 licensed. The original code therefore has this license.
The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those
of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies,
either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project.
On 23 feb 2014, Miroslav added the file 'COPYING', containing the BSD 2-clause
license, to his source tree, without removing the LGPLv2.1+ license file.
Presumably, this means that all his code should be considered dual-licensed.
ShadowNinja's contributions predate this, and are based on an earlier version
of Miroslav's work anyway, so his contributions should necessarily be licensed
LGPLv2.1+ as well.
There is no indication that his contributions are licensed under any other
license (in particular: not under the BSD 2-clause license).
Sfan5 made a few contributions on top of ShadowNinja's version, and on 5 mar 2014,
added the file 'COPYING' with the BSD 2-clause license as well.
Presumably, all his contributions can therefore be considered dual-licensed:
LGPLv2.1+ and BSD 2-clause.
Rogier's contributions are licensed and (re)usable subject to any of the following
licenses:
- FSF GPL v2 or later
- FSF LGPL v2.1 or later
- BSD 2-clause
- BSD 3-clause
See the following files for more details about the licenses:
- LICENSE.LGPLv2.1: the LGPLv2.1 license statement
- LICENSE.BSD-2clause: the BSD 2-clause license text

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Minetest Mapper C++
Copyright (C) 2012 mireq, Miroslav Bendík <miroslav.bendik@gmail.com>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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 Lesser 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.
See COPYING

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Copyright (c) 2012-2014, Miroslav Bendík and various contributors (see AUTHORS)
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those
of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies,
either expressed or implied, of any other legal entity.

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Minetest Mapper C++
Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Miroslav Bendík, and various contributors. See AUTHORS.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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 Lesser 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.