update license text, notice and project team name

[wang-boyu]

• update license text and notice to align with Add NOTICE and full copy of Apache 2.0 license text mesa#2318
• change all "Project Mesa-Geo Team" to "Project Mesa Team"

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[EwoutH]

Thanks for syncing!

[rht]

Needs to be the start year of when Mesa-Geo was first (edit: prepared for) released, according to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html.

The copyright notice should include the year in which you finished preparing the release (so if you finished it in 1998 but didn't post it until 1999, use 1998).

The reason why I cited GPL instead of Apache-2.0, because for the later's how-to guide, the year is specified to be only the latest year. There is an opinion on this: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2171/refreshing-shared-copyright-dates-in-apache-2-0-licensed-code (not answered by a lawyer).

[rht]

Oh well, Apache devs themselves used a year range: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/fe1cf3200223c33ed4670bfa5924d5a4053c8ef9/NOTICE#L2.

[rht]

https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/7362055f5b6eb0d58966fb1e5f13c1f3a861da06/NOTICE#L2

[wang-boyu]

Thanks for spotting this. I changed 2014 to 2017, same as what we have in docs/conf.py:

mesa-geo/docs/conf.py

Line 62 in 4e22c5c

copyright = f"2017-{date.today().year}, Project Mesa-Geo Team"