licenses: License all meson files under CC0-1.0

In an attempt to clarify the license terms of all files in the libcamera
project, the build system files deserve particular attention. While they
describe how the binaries are created, they are not themselves
transformed into any part of binary distributions of the software, and
thus don't influence the copyright on the binary packages. They are
however subject to copyright, and thus influence the distribution terms
of the source packages.

Most of the meson.build files would not meet the threshold of
originality criteria required for copyright protection. Some of the more
complex meson.build files may be eligible for copyright protection. To
avoid any ambiguity and uncertainty, state our intent to not assert
copyrights on the build system files by putting them in the public
domain with the CC0-1.0 license.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Naushir Patuck <naush@raspberrypi.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
Acked-by: Paul Elder <paul.elder@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Show Liu <show.liu@linaro.org>

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