license: Switching license to GPL 3.0

Change-Id: I6b1ceb6fb6498503c4d0ddcab2ea77ffe6ad441b
Refs: #1540
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-ndn-repo-ng: Next generation of NDN repository
-==============================================
+repo-ng: Next generation of NDN repository
+==========================================
 
-**ndn-repo-ng** is an implementation of a Named Data Networking data repository.  The
-**ndn-repo-ng** follows Repo protocol of NDN. The specification of repo protocol is:
+**repo-ng** is an implementation of a Named Data Networking data repository.  The
+**repo-ng** follows Repo protocol of NDN. The specification of repo protocol is:
 
 * http://redmine.named-data.net/projects/repo-ng/wiki
 
-**ndn-repo-ng** uses [ndn-cxx](https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx) library as NDN
+**repo-ng** uses [ndn-cxx](https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx) library as NDN
 development library, and uses sqlite3 as underlying storage.
 
-**ndn-repo-ng** is open source under a license described in the file COPYING.  While the
-license does not require it, we really would appreciate it if others would share their
-contributions to the library if they are willing to do so under the same license.
+**repo-ng** is an open source project licensed under GPL 3.0 (see `COPYING.md` for more
+detail).  We highly welcome all contributions to the repo-ng code, provided that they can
+licensed under GPL 3.0+ or other compatible license.
 
 See the file `INSTALL.md` for build and install instructions.