LICENSE: Update.

- Update project description.
- Add plain text BSD 2-Clause License for Github detection.
- Add LiteX developers to copyrights (similar to README).
- Add "moral" conditions for use of the project.
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LiteX is a Migen/MiSoC based Core/SoC builder that provides the infrastructure to
easily create Cores/SoCs.
BSD 2-Clause License
Unless otherwise noted, LiteX is copyright (C) 2012-2022 Enjoy-Digital.
The LiteX framework provides a convenient and efficient infrastructure to create
FPGA Cores/SoCs, to explore various digital design architectures and create full
FPGA based systems.
Unless otherwise noted, LiteX is copyright (C) 2012-2022 Enjoy-Digital & LiteX developers.
Unless otherwise noted, MiSoC is copyright (C) 2012-2015 Enjoy-Digital.
Unless otherwise noted, MiSoC is copyright (C) 2007-2015 M-Labs Ltd.
All rights reserved.
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(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Other authors retain ownership of their contributions. If a submission can
reasonably be considered independently copyrightable, it's yours and we
encourage you to claim it with appropriate copyright notices. This submission
then falls under the "otherwise noted" category. All submissions are strongly
encouraged to use the two-clause BSD license reproduced above.
Conditions: The project is shared with a permissive BSD 2-Clause License and we
are encouraged to continue sharing it this way thanks to the awesome community
and clients willing to support the project!
To be able to continue doing so, in addition of the BSD 2-Clause License conditions,
we are expecting users to behave with integrity:
- Users making useful use of the project have to be coherent in their behaviour
on social networks.
- Clients using it for commercial use and with unpaid invoices (due to bankruptcy,
liquidation or dissagrements) are not allowed to use/re-integrate post-conflict
developments unless they want to discuss/regularize the situation.