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+# Contributing
+
+## Developer Certificate of Origin
+
+By contributing, you agree to the Linux Foundation's Developer Certificate of Origin ([DOC](DCO)). The DCO is a statement that you, the contributor, have the legal right to make your contribution and understand the contribution will be distributed as part of this project.
diff --git a/DCO b/DCO
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+Developer Certificate of Origin
+Version 1.1
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
+1 Letterman Drive
+Suite D4700
+San Francisco, CA, 94129
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+
+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+    have the right to submit it under the open source license
+    indicated in the file; or
+
+(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+    in the file; or
+
+(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+    it.
+
+(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
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 The MIT License (MIT)
 
+Copyright (c) 2017 Purenetes Authors
 Copyright (c) 2017 Dalton Hubble
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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 To customize lower-level Kubernetes control plane bootstrapping, see the [purenetes/bootkube-terraform](https://github.com/purenetes/bootkube-terraform) Terraform module.
 
-## Contributing
-
-Currently, `purenetes` is the author's personal distribution of Kubernetes. It is focused on addressing the author's cluster needs and is not yet accepting sizable contributions. As the project matures, this contributing policy will be changed to reflect those of a community project.
-
 ## Social Contract
 
 *A formal social contract is being drafted, inspired by the Debian [Social Contract](https://www.debian.org/social_contract).*