Added a setter for the StatusManager.

- copyright notices

- documentation on status listeners

- added copyright notice

Setting a message size limit of 256K.

LevelToSyslogSeverity.convert method did not cover the TRACE level.

This should make the code a somewhat clearer

In StackTracementElement proxy, the setPackageInfo method was renamed as 
setClassPackagingData for consistency. 

The steAsString field marked as transient to save a few byte during serialization
(we can reconstruct this field from 'ste')

- added an entry about logger deserialization (related to LBCLASSIC-74 )

Make ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger instances deserialize with a valid LoggerContext reference.
This is accomplished by the readResolve() method which returns a Logger
generated by org.slf4j.LoggerFactory which may or not be using the correct LoggerContext. However,
that is probably the best we can do at that stage.

Associated test case.

Fixed LBCORE-43

Properties can be read from a resource as well as file or "key/value" pairs.

On application which do not put data in the MDC, the CopyOnInheriteThreadLocal would
throw a NullPointerException.

Given dependencies on test-jar logback could not be build as 'mvn package' from 
a pristine local repository. One had to 'mvn install' first. 

- Added blurb on LBCORE-32 
- various updates to news.html

- In DynamicThresholdFilter, renamed the OnMatch as OnHigherOrEquals, 
  and OnMismatch as OnLower, while the new names may not be perfect, 
  I think they are better than the old ones.
  
- updated javadocs
- added copyright notice

  Strictly speaking, there is no need for copy-on-spawn because every
  change in the MDC already results in a copy of the hash map. Nevertheless,
  this change makes it easier for readers of the code to follow it.
  An external observer should not be able to tell the difference between the old and 
  the new code.
  

- doing integration tests with various databases for logback-access

  the tests to pass). Disabling the failing testDurationOfEnabledLog test
  on Linux.

Using ReadWriteLock  with the hope of improving performance.