edk2: Add Readme.md to root of edk2 repository

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643

Add Readme.md with a brief description of the EDK II
open source project along with links to contribution
agreement, licenses, and resources.

Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>
Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
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# EDK II Project
A modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment
for the UEFI and PI specifications from www.uefi.org.
Contributions to the EDK II open source project are covered by the
[TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1](Contributions.txt)
The majority of the content in the EDK II open source project uses a
[BSD 2-Clause License](License.txt). The EDK II open source project contains
the following components that are covered by additional licenses:
* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Tools/pybench](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Tools/pybench/LICENSE)
* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/LICENSE)
* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.10](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.10/LICENSE)
* [BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress](BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress/LICENSE)
* [MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib](MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/LICENSE)
* [OvmfPkg](OvmfPkg/License.txt)
* [CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl](CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl/LICENSE)
The EDK II Project is composed of packages. The maintainers for each package
are listed in [Maintainers.txt](Maintainers.txt).
# Resources
* [TianoCore](http://www.tianocore.org)
* [EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II)
* [Getting Started with EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Getting-Started-with-EDK-II)
* [Mailing Lists](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Mailing-Lists)
* [TianoCore Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.tianocore.org)
* [How To Contribute](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-To-Contribute)