initial forking commit

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+Any contribution that you make to this repository will
+be under the Apache 2 License, as dictated by that
+[license](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html):
+
+~~~
+5. Submission of Contributions. Unless You explicitly state otherwise,
+   any Contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the Work
+   by You to the Licensor shall be under the terms and conditions of
+   this License, without any additional terms or conditions.
+   Notwithstanding the above, nothing herein shall supersede or modify
+   the terms of any separate license agreement you may have executed
+   with Licensor regarding such Contributions.
+~~~
+
+Contributors must sign-off each commit by adding a `Signed-off-by: ...`
+line to commit messages to certify that they have the right to submit
+the code they are contributing to the project according to the
+[Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)](https://developercertificate.org/).