Document DCO, Signed-off-by requirement

Fixes: #220

Signed-off-by: Nils Philippsen <nils@redhat.com>
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Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.

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python run-rpmautospec.py calculate-release bash
Contributing
------------
You need to be legally allowed to submit any contribution to this project. What this
means in detail is laid out in the file ``DCO.txt`` next to this file. The mechanism by which you
certify this is adding a ``Signed-off-by`` trailer to git commit log messages, you can do this by
using the ``--signoff/-s`` option to ``git commit``.
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License: MIT