Updated LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING.md (#130)

Author: alex268

CONTRIBUTING.md

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-# How to contribute
+# Notice to external contributors
 
-First and foremost, thank you for considering contributing to the db-java-dialects project!
-Your assistance is highly valued by the YDB community.
+## Common
 
-This document provides guidelines for contributing to the project 
-and suggests ways to propose improvements, report bugs, and submit pull requests.
+YDB is a free and open project and we appreciate to receive contributions from our community.
 
-## Reporting Issues
+## Contributing code changes
 
-Before reporting an issue:
-- Use the GitHub issue search to check if the issue has already been reported.
-- If the issue is a bug, include a clear description of the problem with as much relevant information as possible (e.g., versions of libs).
+If you would like to contribute a new feature or a bug fix, please discuss your idea first on the GitHub issue.
+If there is no issue for your idea, please open one. It may be that somebody is already working on it,
+or that there are some complex obstacles that you should know about before starting the implementation.
+Usually there are several ways to fix a problem and it is important to find the right approach before spending time on a PR
+that cannot be merged.
 
-To report a new issue, please follow these steps:
+## Provide a contribution
 
-- Go to the "Issues" tab in the "db-java-dialects" repository. 
-- Click on the "New Issue" button and choose the appropriate type of issue (error report or feature request).
-- Fill in the required details according to the selected template.
-- Assign the relevant tags.
+To make a contribution you should submit a pull request. There will probably be discussion about the pull request and, if any changes are needed, we would love to work with you to get your pull request merged.
 
-## Legal Info
+## Other questions
 
-In order for us (YANDEX LLC) to accept patches and other contributions from you, 
-you will have to adopt our Yandex Contributor License Agreement (the “**CLA**”). 
-The current version of the CLA you may find here:
-1) https://yandex.ru/legal/cla/?lang=en (in English) and
-2) https://yandex.ru/legal/cla/?lang=ru (in Russian).
+If you have any questions, please mail us at [email protected].

LICENSE.md renamed to LICENSE

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-Copyright 2022 YANDEX LLC
-                               Apache License
+                                 Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
                         http://www.apache.org/licenses/
 
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       file or class name and description of purpose be included on the
       same "printed page" as the copyright notice for easier
       identification within third-party archives.
+
+   Copyright 2022-2024 YANDEX LLC
+
+   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
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+
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+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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