Reorganize Authors, License and Contributors files #135

This will hopefully make life easier for packagers.

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+The elementary icons are designed and developed by
+Daniel Foré <daniel@elementaryos.org> at https://github.com/elementary/icons.
+
+This variant - supporting all Desktop Environments, but developed for Xfce
+- is currently maintained by Simon Steinbeiß <simon@xfce.org>.
+It still holds many of the symlinks that upstream elementary dropped.
+
+These icons are free artwork; you can redistribute them and/or modify
+them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+These icons distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with these icons; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+GNOME icons, Humanity icons, and elementary icons are all licensed
+under the GPL.
+
+Icons based on GNOME and other GNOME projects are licensed GPL.
+You can visit the GNOME website here: http://www.gnome.org/
+
+Icons based on Tango sources or taken from the Tango project are public domain.
+You can visit the Tango project website here:
+http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project
+
+Icons based on Humanity sources or taken from the elementary project are licensed GPL.
+You can visit the Humanity website here: http://launchpad.net/humanity
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