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\r
+\r
+A modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment\r
+for the UEFI and PI specifications from www.uefi.org.\r
+\r
+Contributions to the EDK II open source project are covered by the\r
+[TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1](Contributions.txt)\r
+\r
+The majority of the content in the EDK II open source project uses a\r
+[BSD 2-Clause License](License.txt).  The EDK II open source project contains\r
+the following components that are covered by additional licenses:\r
+* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Tools/pybench](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Tools/pybench/LICENSE)\r
+* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/LICENSE)\r
+* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.10](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.10/LICENSE)\r
+* [BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress](BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress/LICENSE)\r
+* [MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib](MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/LICENSE)\r
+* [OvmfPkg](OvmfPkg/License.txt)\r
+* [CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl](CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl/LICENSE)\r
+\r
+The EDK II Project is composed of packages.  The maintainers for each package\r
+are listed in [Maintainers.txt](Maintainers.txt).\r
+\r
+# Resources\r
+* [TianoCore](http://www.tianocore.org)\r
+* [EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II)\r
+* [Getting Started with EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Getting-Started-with-EDK-II)\r
+* [Mailing Lists](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Mailing-Lists)\r
+* [TianoCore Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.tianocore.org)\r
+* [How To Contribute](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-To-Contribute)\r