Adding build system, README, COPYING, basic INSTALL.md, and skeleton for unit tests

Change-Id: I00a58106e43f6eaaec6eedf9fa7d217a22c19d2b
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4eb4dca..444b8db 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .DS*
-.waf*
+.waf-1*
 .lock*
 **/*.pyc
 build/