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Thank you for your interest in contributing to this project!
Before you submit your first patch, please take a moment to review the following guidelines:
Certificate of Origin
By contributing to this project, you agree to the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). This document was created by the Linux Kernel community and is a simple statement that you, as a contributor, have the legal right to make the contribution.
In order to show your agreement with the DCO you should include at the end of the commit message, the following line:
Signed-off-by: John Doe <john.doe@example.com>
using your real name and email.
This can be done easily using git commit -s.
Fixing the DCO
If you did not sign-off one or more of your commits then it is not all for not.
The crowd at src-d have a wonderful guide on how to remedy this
situation.
License Header
As part of our license, we must include a license header at the top of each source file. The template for this header can be found here. If you are creating a new file in the repository you will have to add this header to the file.