add markdown-formatted readme document

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+
+Alien::ZMQ
+==========
+
+This is a perl5 module that can find libzmq on the target machine or install
+it if it isn't already there.  For more information, take a look at the
+module's page on the [CPAN](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Alien%3A%3AZMQ).
+
+License
+-------
+
+This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
+terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
+

diff --git a/dist.ini b/dist.ini
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 [PruneFiles]
 filename = dist.ini
+filename = README.md
 
 [Clean]
 [MetaJSON]