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doc(README): clarify license situation

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Also, drop the top-level MIT license file. With this repository
containing mostly Snix, it's confusing.

Change-Id: I1215cf05f6f65b399ff7e8566d425b848fe9ccb0
Reviewed-on: https://cl.snix.dev/c/snix/+/30600
Autosubmit: Florian Klink <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: Vova Kryachko <v.kryachko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: besadii
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The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2019 Vincent Ambo
Copyright (c) 2020-2024 The TVL Authors
Copyright (c) 2025 The Snix Project
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

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It documents the status of this project, usage/development instructions, contact
details and much more than what would fit in here. Seriously, check it out!
# License structure
All Snix crates in this repository are licensed under GPL-3.0, with the
exception of the protocol buffer definitions used for communication between
services which are available under a more permissive license (MIT).
The idea behind this structure is that any direct usage of our code (e.g.
linking to it, embedding the evaluator, etc.) will fall under the terms of
the GPL3, but users are free to implement their own components speaking these
protocols under the terms of the MIT license.
Other tooling in this repository might be licensed differently, and is usually
described in the code itself, via some auxillary metadata (`Cargo.toml` etc), or
a `LICENSE` file in the same or parent folder(s). If this is not the case,
please open a bug!