add COPYING, DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE, CONTRIBUTING.rst

Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

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+Signing off your commits
+========================
+
+Contributions are accepted upstream under the terms set out in the
+file ``COPYING``.  You must certify the contents of the file
+``DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE`` for your contribution.  To do this, append a
+``Signed-off-by`` line to end of your commit message.  An easy way to
+add this line is to pass the ``-s`` option to git-commit(1).  Here is
+an example of a ``Signed-off-by`` line:
+
+::
+
+    Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>