From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:17:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: copyright: notice re formalities
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copyright: notice re formalities

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 9567297..c483ced 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -22,3 +22,22 @@ The client and server are:
 
 On a Debian system, the GNU General Public License v3 can be found in
 /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3
+
+
+Formalities
+-----------
+
+The licence is generally indicated in each file with an SPDX
+delcaration; as is conventional, this should be read as a licence
+grant.
+
+Contributions to Hippotat are accepted based on the git commit
+Signed-off-by convention, by which the contributors' certify their
+contributions according to the Developer Certificate of Origin version
+1.1 - see the file DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE.
+
+If you create a new file please be sure to add an appropriate licence
+header, probably something like this:
+// Copyright 2017-2022 Ian Jackson and contributors to Hippotat
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+// There is NO WARRANTY.