Explain reason for Signed-off-by in CONTRIBUTING

Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Di Natale <dinatale2@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Haakan T Johansson <f96hajo@chalmers.se>
Signed-off-by: Kash Pande <kash@tripleback.net>
Closes #6183
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please summarize important information such as why the proposed please summarize important information such as why the proposed
approach was chosen or a brief description of the bug you are resolving. approach was chosen or a brief description of the bug you are resolving.
Each line of the body must be 72 characters or less. Each line of the body must be 72 characters or less.
* The last line must be a `Signed-off-by:` line with the developer's * The last line must be a `Signed-off-by:` tag with the developer's
name followed by their email. name followed by their email. This is the developer's certification
that they have the right to submit the patch for inclusion into
the code base and indicates agreement to the [Developer's Certificate
of Origin](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin).
Code without a proper signoff cannot be merged.
Git can append the `Signed-off-by` line to your commit messages. Simply Git can append the `Signed-off-by` line to your commit messages. Simply
provide the `-s` or `--signoff` option when performing a `git commit`. provide the `-s` or `--signoff` option when performing a `git commit`.