DOC: add License, Maintainers, and Funding sections

Fixes #182.

Author: dnicolodi

docs/about.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+.. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 The meson-python developers
+..
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+
+License
+=======
+
+``meson-python`` is distributed under the terms of the `MIT
+License`__. ``meson-python`` is tightly coupled to the Meson build
+system, which is distributed under the the terms of the `Apache
+License 2.0`__.
+
+__ https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson-python/blob/main/LICENSE
+__ https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/COPYING
+
+
+Maintainers
+===========
+
+- `Ralf Gommers <https://github.com/rgommers>`_
+- `Daniele Nicolodi <https://github.com/dnicolodi>`_
+- `Henry Schreiner <https://github.com/henryiii>`_
+- `Thomas Li <https://github.com/lithomas1>`_
+
+
+Funding
+=======
+
+Ralf Gommers contributes to the development of ``meson-python`` as
+part of their job at `Quansight`__.
+
+__ https://www.quansight.com/

docs/index.rst

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ for quick questions - one ``meson-python`` maintainer is active there.
    :hidden:
 
    changelog
+   about
    security
    contributing/index
    Source Code <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson-python>