chore(derive): include license files #170
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I am packaging the prometheus-client and prometheus-client-derive-encode crates for Fedora Linux. I noticed that the latter crate does not contain license files as it is published to crates.io.
However, both the terms of the MIT and Apache-2.0 licenses require that any (re)distributed sources contain a copy of the original license text. This is potentially problematic for the crates as published on crates.io, but definitely problematic for packaging them on Linux distributions.
This PR includes symbolic links to both license files in the derive-encode directory, which should result in "cargo package" / "cargo publish" including a copy of the license files when publishing to crates.io. This is assuming that the publishing workflow is run on an operating system that supports symbolic links - if publishing happens on Windows, full copies of the license texts might be required instead of a symbolic link.