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README.md: planned license change news

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News
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## License change plan
Lws is planning to change the pieces that are currently LGPLv2.1+SLE to MIT
https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT . Stuff that is already CC0 or another
permissive license will stay as it is.
This license change is making an already permissive license (it was already LGPL,
and the SLE removed most restrictions already) even more permissive.
So I expect most contributors either don't much care or are happy about it.
Contributors who object should contact me via:
- the lws mailing list https://libwebsockets.org/mailman/listinfo/libwebsockets
- github issue https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets , or
- email to `andy@warmcat.com`
...before **Aug 11 2019**, and I'll rewrite the related code before the change.
There'll be a last release of the currently-licensed stuff (probably v3.2) and
then the same code will have the licese grant changed in the sources, become
master and also have an otherwise identical release, probably v4.0. The v3.2
stuff won't be maintained (by me anyway... it's FOSS though) but the v4.0
stuff which is the same except the license will get the usual v4.0-stable
treatment.
Even after the change I will continue to rely on users to help me with bug
reports and patches, work together on new features. The license will no
longer require it but the practical advantages from staying aligned with
upstream lws for users remain the same.
## New features on master
- `LWS_WITH_NETWORK` cmake option (default on) allows one-step removal of vhost,