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docs: mention in the README which licenses cover nano's code and docs 

Suggested-by: Lars Wirzenius -- https://liw.fi/readme-review/
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The nano editor is an official GNU package. For more information on
GNU and the Free Software Foundation, please see https://www.gnu.org/.
License
Nano's code and documentation are covered by the GPL version 3 or
(at your option) any later version, except for two functions that
were copied from busybox which are under a BSD license. Nano's
documentation is additionally covered by the GNU Free Documentation
License version 1.2 or (at your option) any later version. See the
files COPYING and COPYING.DOC for the full text of these licenses.
When in any file of this package a copyright notice mentions a
year range (such as 1999-2011), it is a shorthand for a list of
all the years in that interval.
How to compile and install nano
Download the latest nano source tarball, and then:
@ -80,9 +93,3 @@ Bug Reports
If you find a bug, please file a detailed description of the problem
on nano's bug tracker: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=nano.
Copyright Years
When in any file of this package a copyright notice mentions a
year range (such as 1999-2011), it is a shorthand for a list of
all the years in that interval.