Copyright-holder and year information is extracted from git log.
git history begins in 2005. So (C) from 1998..2005 is lost. Also some
(C) assignment of commits where the committer didn't use --author.
Hide most of the setup complexity that is irrelevant when
running the video-server on the same host as Ardour.
Add an abstraction layer to the config which will become
important later when /building in/ the video-server.
