added license and copyright notices

Author: fcollman

LICENSE

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+Allen Institute Software License – This software license is the 2-clause BSD license 
+plus a third clause that prohibits redistribution for commercial purposes without further permission.
+
+Copyright © 2017. Allen Institute. All rights reserved.
+
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+following disclaimer.
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+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. Redistributions for commercial purposes are not permitted without the Allen Institute’s written permission.
+For purposes of this license, commercial purposes is the incorporation of the Allen Institute's software into
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README.md

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 These are a set of python based processing modules that do a broad assortment of steps in various image processing workflows whose results are ultimately stored in render.  They make extensive use of the render-python library (www.github.com/fcollman/render-python) for reading metadata from render and sending it back.
 
+# support
+
+This code is an important part of the Allen Institute for Brain Science code base and we are actively using and maintaining it. Issues are encouraged, but because this tool is so central to our mission pull requests might not be accepted if they conflict with our existing plans.
+
 # running a module
 Each module is designed to be run using a common pattern for defining inputs that is setup using the argschema pattern.
 www.github.com/AllenInstitute/argschema
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 # notebooks
 a set of ipython notebooks that show some more interactive use of render-python and render-python apps.  Mostly specific to the allen in terms of data sources, but perhaps still useful.
 
+Copyright 2017 Allen Institute