Add copyright+license statement to README, and a copy of GPL-3 to COPYING

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diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -111,3 +111,23 @@ If you're interested in hacking the larch code, speed improvements
 are always interesting. See the bug tracker for things known to be
 slow, or run `speed-test` on large numbers of keys, and use profiling 
 to see where time is wasted.
+
+
+Legalese
+--------
+
+Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012  Lars Wirzenius
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 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 General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+