add a copyright notice for the new code I wrote last summer

(thanks to Frank Loeffler for pointing out that I neglected to do this before)


git-svn-id: http://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/cactus/EinsteinInitialData/Exact/trunk@146 e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87

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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8dafd6f..fa3c67e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -25,3 +25,28 @@ Note that the June 2002 revisions to this thorn included renaming
 most of the parameters.  The perl script  par/convert-par.pl  will
 convert old parameter files to use the new names, renaming the old
 parameter files to ".par.bak" as backups.
+
+
+Copyright
+=========
+
+As noted above, this code has been hacked on by many different people,
+so its' copyright status is somewhat unclear.
+
+However, the new code added in the June 2002 revisions is
+copyright (C) 2001-2002 by Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@aei.mpg.de>.
+
+This new code 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 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This new code 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 thorn (see the file COPYING in this directory);
+if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
+Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA