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contributing: Clarify license situation for parts of the project 

GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3234
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## Licensing
All contributions are made under the same MPLv2 license as the rest of
the project, except documentation, user interface text and translation
strings which are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License. You retain the copyright to code you have
written.
All contributions are made available under the same license as the already
existing material being contributed to. For most of the project and unless
otherwise stated this means MPLv2, but there are exceptions:
- Certain commands (under cmd/...) may have a separate license, indicated by
the presence of a LICENSE file in the corresponding directory.
- The documentation (man/...) is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Projects under vendor/... are copyright by and licensed from their
respective original authors. Contributions should be made to the original
project, not here.
Regardless of the license in effect, you retain the copyright to your
contribution.