feat(License): add new headers information about license (#7941)

Co-authored-by: Francesco Borzì <borzifrancesco@gmail.com>

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+# List of AUTHORS who contributed over time to the AzerothCore project
+
+## Warning
+The code of AzerothCore is shipped as it is without any form of warranty,
+and - except for third party libraries licensed under the AGPL 3,
+which you can read from the file "LICENSE-AGPL3".
+
+## Point of current development
+The project is currently hosted at https://www.azerothcore.org/ and developed under https://github.com/azerothcore
+
+## History of development
+Development of this project dates back to 2004, and was developed under various umbrellas over time:
+* WoW Daemon Team, 2004
+* MaNGOS project, 2005-2008, located at http://www.mangosproject.org
+* MaNGOS project, 2008-2011, located at http://getmangos.com
+* SD2 project, 2008-2009, located at http://www.scriptdev2.com/
+* TrinityCore, 2008-2012, located at https://www.trinitycore.org/
+* SunwellCore 2012-2016, privately developed, more info at https://www.azerothcore.org/pages/sunwell.pl/
+* AzerothCore, 2016-2021, located at https://www.azerothcore.org/
+
+## Authorship of the code
+Authorship is assigned for each commit within the git history, which is stored in these git repositories:
+* github.com/cmangos/mangos-svn (History from MaNGOS project from 2005-2008, originally hosted at http://mangos.svn.sourceforge.net)
+* github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore
+* github.com/azerothcore/azerothcore-wotlk
+
+Unfortunately we have no detailed information of the history of the WoWD project;
+if somebody can provide information, please contact us, so that we can make this history available
+
+SunwellCore developed privately and has no git history.
+
+## Exceptions with third party libraries
+The third party libraries have their own way of addressing authorship, and the authorship of commits importing/ updating
+a third party library reflects who did the importing instead of who wrote the code within the commit.
+
+The Authors of third party libraries are not explicitly mentioned, and usually are possible to obtain from the files belonging to the third party libraries.