Added LICENSE and README.rst.

Author: ljosa

LICENSE

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+CellProfiler is licensed under the GNU General Public License version
+2.  See the file COPYING for the terms of the GNU GPL license.
+
+Certain files are licensed under the more permissive BSD license.
+This is indicated near the top of the relevant files.  The BSD license
+is as follows:
+
+Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Broad Institute
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+      with the distribution.
+
+    * Neither the name of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+      nor the Broad Institute nor the names of its contributors may be
+      used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+      without specific prior written permission.
+
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MASSACHUSETTS
+INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OR THE BROAD INSTITUTE BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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+ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

README.rst

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+Python-bioformats is a Python wrapper for Bio-Formats, a standalone
+Java library for reading and writing life sciences image file
+formats. Bio-Formats is capable of parsing both pixels and metadata
+for a large number of formats, as well as writing to several
+formats. Python-bioformats uses the python-javabridge to start a Java
+virtual machine from Python and interact with it. Python-bioformats
+was developed for and is used by the cell image analysis software
+CellProfiler (cellprofiler.org).
+
+PyPI record: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bioformats
+
+Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/python-bioformats/
+
+GitHub repository: https://github.com/CellProfiler/python-bioformats
+
+Report bugs here: https://github.com/CellProfiler/python-bioformats/issues
+
+python-bioformats is licensed under the BSD license.  See the
+accompanying file LICENSE for details.
+
+Copyright (c) 2003-2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Broad Institute
+All rights reserved.