[DS-1390] stage 1: move license, email texts, news out of ConfigurationManager

Simplify ConfigurationManager by factoring out methods that don't deal with simple Properties-like stuff.

I apologize for the large amount of whitespace adjustment in the initial commit.  I think that NetBeans was normalizing whitespace in every file that it touched when auto-refactoring.  It's all stuff that should be done, but it does clutter up the diffs.