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irssi: embrace the Developer Certificate of Origin for contributions

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The Linux kernel started to embrace a light weight development contribution
agreement process called the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) circa
2004. Attorneys all over the planet have conferred a lot of respect and
appreciation for this document and it provides a light weight alternative to
cumbersome and controversial Contribution License Agreements (CLAs).

Similar to streamlining FOSS licenses we also all stand to gain from
streamlining a light weight contribution agreement process for development
and in light of this the the Linux Foundation recently has made the DCO a
standalone project [0] so that any FOSS project under any FOSS license can
take advantage of the same gains. The motivation and intent is documented
on my blog post [1] and later covered extensively on lwn [2] after
James Bottomley's talk, and Bradley Kuhn went on extensively about it
as well [3].

Lets take advantage of the new shiny DCO and embrace it for contributions.

[0] http://developercertificate.org/
[1] http://www.do-not-panic.com/2014/02/developer-certificate-of-origin.html
[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/592503/
[3] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/09/do-not-need-cla.html

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This project embraces the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) for
contributions. This means you must agree to the following prior to submitting
patches, if you agree with this developer certificate you acknowledge this by
adding a Signed-off-by tag to your patch commit log. Every submitted patch
must have this.
The source for the DCO:
http://developercertificate.org/
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Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
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.