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Meta: add DCO-1.1 to CONTRIBUTING.md
The DCO is a legal protection for some licenses (such as MIT) which do not expressly verify contributors' consent. MIT also does not have a patents clause, which the DCO helps address. This is not retroactive, but could help protect future contributions.
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**Please ask first** before embarking on any significant pull request (e.g. implementing features, refactoring code), otherwise you risk spending a lot of time working on something that the project's developers might not want to merge into the project.
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Please adhere to the coding conventions used throughout a project (indentation, accurate comments, etc.). See the [code style](https://www.bsframework.io/docs/code_style.html) guide and respect the style of surrounding code.
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<a id="developers-certificate-of-origin"></a>
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## Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
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* (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
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have the right to submit it under the open source license
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indicated in the file; or
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* (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
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of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
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license and I have the right under that license to submit that
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work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
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by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
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permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
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in the file; or
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* (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
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person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
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it.
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* (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
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are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
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personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
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maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
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this project or the open source license(s) involved.

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