chore(governance): replace CLA with DCO, add NOTICE and third-party license policy - #4
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…icense policy External contributions no longer require signing a CLA. The Developer Certificate of Origin v1.1 (DCO.md) replaces CLA.md: contributors sign off commits with `git commit -s`, keep their copyright, and license their work inbound = outbound under Apache-2.0. A dco.yml workflow enforces the Signed-off-by trailer on every PR (merge commits exempt). Also adds the Apache-2.0 NOTICE file and an explicit inbound license policy in CONTRIBUTING.md (permissive-only for vendored code; no GPL/AGPL/SSPL/BSL). Matches the governance switch already merged in humanbound/humanbound and humanbound/humanbound-firewall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Demetris Gerogiannis <8920360+dgerog@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Adopts the Developer Certificate of Origin v1.1 as the project's contribution mechanism — the same one used by the Linux kernel, CNCF projects, and GitLab. Contributors sign off commits with
git commit -s, keep the copyright to their work, and license it inbound = outbound under Apache-2.0, exactly like the rest of the codebase. No agreement to sign, no bot to interact with.Matches humanbound/humanbound#61 and humanbound/humanbound-firewall#16 — all Humanbound open-source repos keep identical contribution governance.
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CLA.mdremoved →DCO.mdadded — verbatim DCO v1.1 text plus a practical how-to (sign-off flag, fixing a missed sign-off).github/workflows/dco.yml— CI check that every non-merge commit in a PR carries aSigned-off-bytrailer, with fix instructions in the failure messageCONTRIBUTING.md— DCO section replaces the CLA section; new third-party license policy (vendored code must be Apache-2.0/MIT/BSD/ISC; MPL/LGPL only unmodified with maintainer sign-off; GPL/AGPL/SSPL/BSL not accepted)NOTICEadded per Apache-2.0 §4(d)🤖 Generated with Claude Code