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* Make the DCO or whatever inline with matrix.org

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#sign-off
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## Sign off

In order to have a concrete record that your contribution is intentional
and you agree to license it under the same terms as the project's license, we've adopted the
same lightweight approach that the Linux Kernel
[submitting patches process](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin>),
[Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), and many other
projects use: the DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin:
http://developercertificate.org/). This is a simple declaration that you wrote
the contribution or otherwise have the right to contribute it to Draupnir:
We ask that everybody who contributes to Draupnir
repositories signs off their contributions, as explained below.

We follow a simple 'inbound=outbound' model for contributions: the act
of submitting an 'inbound' contribution means that the contributor
agrees to license their contribution under the same terms as the
project's overall 'outbound' license - in our case, this is the
Academic Free License v. 3.0 (see [LICENSE](https://github.com/the-draupnir-project/Draupnir/blob/main/LICENSES/AFL-3.0.txt)).

In order to have a concrete record that your contribution is
intentional and you agree to license it under the same terms as the
project's license, we've adopted the same lightweight approach used by
the [Linux
Kernel](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html),
[Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md),
and many other projects: the [Developer Certificate of
Origin](https://developercertificate.org/) (DCO). This is a simple
declaration that you wrote the contribution or otherwise have the
right to contribute it to Matrix:

```
Developer Certificate of Origin
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this project or the open source license(s) involved.
```

If you agree to this for your contribution, then all that's needed is to
include the line in your commit or pull request comment:
If you agree to this for your contribution, then all that's needed is
to include the line in your commit or pull request comment:

```
Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.example.org>
```

We accept contributions under a legally identifiable name, such as
your name on government documentation or common-law names (names
claimed by legitimate usage or repute). Unfortunately, we cannot
accept anonymous contributions at this time.

Git allows you to add this signoff automatically when using the `-s`
flag to `git commit`, which uses the name and email set in your
`user.name` and `user.email` git configs.
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