Added LICENSE.txt for licensing under 3 clause BSD license

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+Copyright 2020 V.Harishankar (http://harishankar.org)
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 
+are met:
+
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 
+notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+2. 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.
+
+3. Neither the name of the copyright holder 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 
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