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CONTRIBUTING.md: mention license and SPDX

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Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/pull/134
[ Mention LGPL is preferred, even for tools/ ]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
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@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ patches sent to the [mailing list]. In addition you can open issues and feature
requests on our [GitHub tracker].
In this file you can find:
* [License and SPDX](#license-and-spdx)
* [Commit style and history](#commit-style-and-history)
* [Using commit trailers](#using-commit-trailers)
+ [Signed-off-by](#signed-off-by)
@ -19,6 +20,13 @@ In this file you can find:
* [Tools manual pages](#tools-manual-pages)
* [Tools shell completion](#tools-shell-completion)
## License and SPDX
The project uses `GPLv2+` for `tools/` and `LGPLv2.1+` for everything else.
New tools should be licensed under `LGPLv2.1+` to make it easy to migrate code
to other places when/if needed. When adding new files use the respective
`SPDX-License-Identifier:` instead of the complete license text.
## Commit style and history
The kmod project uses a [linear, "recipe" style] history. This means that