Add section about licensing to CONTRIBUTING.md
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Crane <seabass-labrax@gmx.com>
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4. If there are no objections and you've resolved any issues that might have been brought up, rebase the commits onto the `master` branch.
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If there are many commits, consider 'squashing' them into one with a single meaningful message when rebasing.
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## Licensing and copyright
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`matchbot` is open source software, allowing anyone to use it without restriction.
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In order to maintain this, please take the time to ensure that your contributions are properly licensed.
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### Developer Certificate of Origin
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Please include a '`Signed-off-by:`' line in the message of each commit to show that you have agreed to the [Developer Certificate of Origin, version 1.1](https://developercertificate.org/).
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You can add this automatically by using the `--signoff` flag when running `git commit`.
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### REUSE headers
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`matchbot` follows the [REUSE specification](https://reuse.software/) to make it easy for people to find out its licensing and copyright.
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As such, all files should start with a comment of the file's licence:
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> `;; SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0`
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When you modify a file, add a copyright header comment to it with the year when you first modified the file, your name and finally your email address.
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For example:
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> `;; SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Joe Bloggs <joe@example.com>`
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If the copyright to your contributions is held by your employer, put your employer's name in brackets after your own name.
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