Updated the repositories to comply with the current copyright best practices

[mithro]

• https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/preparing/#license-headers
• https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors/

Specific things that need to be done;

• COPYING file renamed to LICENSE file
• The LICENSE file should start with - Copyright 20XX The [Project Name] Authors. -- See https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors/
  • The default should be SymbiFlow Authors isn't specialized below.
  • Project X-Ray --> The Project X-Ray Authors
  • Project U-Ray --> The Project U-Ray Authors
  • Project Trellis --> The Project Trellis Authors
• Add or update the AUTHORS files to have the text as shown at https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors/
• Remove the un-needed All rights reserved. text.
• Make sure all code files have the license specifier at the top of the file as shown at https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/licenses/
• All code files should have SPDX identifiers.
• Add CI which checks for all this.
• Make sure that all third_party code is under third_party directory.
• Make sure that all third_party directories have a correct LICENSE file.
• Python files should have a #!/usr/bin/env python3 as the shebang line.
• Python files should have a # coding: utf-8 as the second line after the shebang.

What other things are missing?

[mithro]

Tracking a bunch of the status at https://github.com/orgs/SymbiFlow/projects/18

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[mithro]

FYI - @kgugala, @litghost, @acomodi, @mkurc-ant

[daniellimws]

The CI scripts can be copied from https://github.com/SymbiFlow/fpga-tool-perf/tree/f8d143b73f670eea5efdbe96f1236d82998c896e/.github/travis

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[mithro]

@daniellimws - I wonder if we need something like a https://github.com/SymbiFlow/symbiflow-travis-common repo that contains scripts like the license check?

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