Add a COPYING file with too many words in it.

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+jq is copyright (C) 2012 Stephen Dolan
+
+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.
+
+
+
+jq's documentation (everything found under the docs/ subdirectory in
+the source tree) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 3.0
+license, which can be found at:
+
+         http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
+
+The documentation website includes a copy of Twitter's Boostrap and
+relies on Bonsai, Liquid templates and various other projects, look
+them up for detailed licensing conditions.
+         
+
+         
+jq incorporates David M. Gay's dtoa.c and g_fmt.c, which bear the
+following notices:
+
+dtoa.c:
+The author of this software is David M. Gay.
+
+Copyright (c) 1991, 2000, 2001 by Lucent Technologies.
+
+Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
+purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
+is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy
+or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting
+documentation for such software.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
+WARRANTY.  IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR LUCENT MAKES ANY
+REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY
+OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+g_fmt.c:
+The author of this software is David M. Gay.
+
+Copyright (c) 1991, 1996 by Lucent Technologies.
+
+Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
+purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice
+is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy
+or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting
+documentation for such software.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
+WARRANTY.  IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR LUCENT MAKES ANY
+REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY
+OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+