Move non-license info from LICENSE file to README

* LICENSE: Remove INSTALLATION, TYPICAL USE, WARNINGS sections (i.e.,
remove all non-license information).
* README.md (Overview): Add link to README.cords; some other minor changes;
reformat text.
* README.md (General Description): Add link to README.win32 and
README.win64; reformat text.
* README.md (Installation and Portability): Mention CMake before providing
exact build commands; add reference to README.cmake and README.macros;
mention how to build the collector on Windows; mention that threads are on
be default; mention how to build cord library with Makefile.direct mention
that Symbian has a separate makefile.
* README.md (The C++ Interface to the Allocator): Copy information about
building the C++ GC libraries from LICENSE; add link to gcinterface.md.
* doc/README.cords: Copy information about cord library building from
LICENSE file.

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diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 00d52163..9bedaa80 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -28,71 +28,3 @@ to use the GNU-style build procedure come with a modified GPL license
 that appears not to significantly restrict use of the collector, though
 use of those files for a purpose other than building the collector may
 require the resulting code to be covered by the GPL.
-
-For more details and the names of other contributors, see the README.md,
-doc/README.*, AUTHORS and include/gc.h files.  These files describe typical
-use of the collector on a machine that is already supported.
-
-For the version number, see README.md or include/gc_version.h files.
-
-INSTALLATION:
-Under UN*X, Linux, Cygwin:
-Alternative 1 (the old way): type "make -f Makefile.direct check".
-        Link against libgc.a.
-
-Alternative 2 (the new way): type
-        "./configure --prefix=<dir>; make; make check; make install".
-        Link against <dir>/lib/libgc.a or <dir>/lib/libgc.so.
-        See doc/README.autoconf for details.
-
-Alternative 3 (another new way): type
-        "mkdir out; cd out; cmake ..; cmake --build ."
-        See doc/README.cmake for details.
-
-Under Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, or 2000:
-copy the appropriate makefile to MAKEFILE, read it, and type "nmake check".
-(Under Windows, this assumes you have Microsoft command-line tools
-installed, and suitably configured.)
-Read the machine specific README.XXX in the doc directory if one exists.
-
-If you need thread support, you should define GC_THREADS as described in
-doc/README.macros (configure defines this implicitly unless --disable-threads
-option is given).
-
-If you wish to use the cord (structured string) library with the stand-alone
-Makefile.direct, type "make -f Makefile.direct cords".  (You may need to
-override CC specified in the Makefile. The CORD_printf implementation in
-cordprnt.c is known to be less than perfectly portable.  The rest of the
-package should still work.)  See include/cord.h for the API.
-
-If you wish to use the collector from C++, type "make c++", or use
---enable-cplusplus with the configure script.  This creates libgccpp.a and
-libgctba.a files, or their shared library equivalents (libgccpp.so and
-libgctba.so).  You should link with either the first or the second one, but
-not both.  See include/gc_cpp.h and doc/gcinterface.md.
-
-TYPICAL USE:
-Include "gc.h" from the include subdirectory.  Link against the
-appropriate library ("libgc.a" under UN*X).  Replace calls to malloc
-by calls to GC_MALLOC, and calls to realloc by calls to GC_REALLOC.
-If the object is known to never contain pointers, use GC_MALLOC_ATOMIC
-instead of GC_MALLOC.
-
-Define GC_DEBUG before including gc.h for additional checking.
-
-More documentation on the collector interface can be found in README.md,
-doc/gcinterface.md, include/gc.h, and other files in the doc directory.
-
-WARNINGS:
-
-Do not store the only pointer to an object in memory allocated
-with system malloc, since the collector usually does not scan
-memory allocated in this way.
-
-Use with threads may be supported on your system, but requires the collector
-to be built with thread support.  See Makefile.am or Makefile.direct.
-The collector does not guarantee to scan thread-local storage (e.g. of the
-kind accessed with pthread_getspecific()).  The collector does scan
-thread stacks though, so generally the best solution is to ensure that
-any pointers stored in thread-local storage are also stored on the
-thread's stack for the duration of their lifetime.