BIP39: add license and copyright section #1680
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These are required for legal use, and also per BIP-2, and they avoid user confusion as seen in #1395 (comment).
Choice of MIT license per BIP author feedback in #1395 (comment).
The license omission was likely an oversight.
BIP-39 predates BIP-2 by 2-3 years. BIP-1 (in force at the time, since superseded by BIP-2) did require a copyright or public domain section.