Changed license to MIT, closes #178

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributor License Agreement
+
+By contributing your code to NJsonSchema you grant Rico Suter a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide,
+royalty-free, sublicenseable, transferable license under all of Your relevant intellectual property rights
+(including copyright, patent, and any other rights), to use, copy, prepare derivative works of, distribute and
+publicly perform and display the Contributions on any licensing terms, including without limitation:
+(a) open source licenses like the MIT license; and (b) binary, proprietary, or commercial licenses. Except for the
+licenses granted herein, You reserve all right, title, and interest in and to the Contribution.
+
+You confirm that you are able to grant us these rights. You represent that You are legally entitled to grant the
+above license. If Your employer has rights to intellectual property that You create, You represent that You have
+received permission to make the Contributions on behalf of that employer, or that Your employer has waived such
+rights for the Contributions.
+
+You represent that the Contributions are Your original works of authorship, and to Your knowledge, no other person
+claims, or has the right to claim, any right in any invention or patent related to the Contributions. You also
+represent that You are not legally obligated, whether by entering into an agreement or otherwise, in any way that
+conflicts with the terms of this license.
+
+Rico Suter acknowledges that, except as explicitly described in this Agreement, any Contribution which
+you provide is on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
+INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS
+FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

LICENSE.md

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-# Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
-
-This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.
-
-1\. Definitions
-
-The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.
-
-A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software.
-
-A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license.
-
-"Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.
-
-2\. Grant of Rights
-
-(A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create.
-
-(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software.
-
-3\. Conditions and Limitations
-
-(A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.
-
-(B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically.
-
-(C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.
-
-(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
-
-(E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2016 Rico Suter
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
+use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
+the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
+FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
+COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
+IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
+CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.