Add funding acknowledgements, copyright and disclaimer to spec

Notably missing from the current specification document are funding acknowledgements, copyright notices and lab legal disclaimer.

It may be politically inadvisable for us as lab employees to push this to a large distribution list without that legalese intact.

Below is an example of such legalese, taken from the UPC specification I published in Nov 2013. The wording was correct at that time, although it's likely the grant numbers need to be changed.

Acknowledgements:

This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. See page 2 of the Language Specifications for individual author affiliations and acknowledgements.

Copyright:

This manuscript has been authored by an author at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02- 05CH11231 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges, that the U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.

Legal Disclaimer:

This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by the United States Government. While this document is believed to contain correct information, neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor the Regents of the University of California, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by its trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof, or the Regents of the University of California. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof or the Regents of the University of California.

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