Licensing rules in HACKING.md

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Patches go to [github.com/calamares](https://github.com/calamares/calamares).
Licensing
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Calamares is released under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 3 or later. Every source file must have a license header, with a list of copyright holders and years.
Example:
```
/* === This file is part of Calamares - <http://github.com/calamares> ===
*
* Copyright 2013-2014, Random Person <name@example.com>
* Copyright 2010, Someone Else <someone@example.com>
*
* Calamares is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Calamares is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with Calamares. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
```
Copyright holders must be physical or legal personalities. A statement such as `Copyright 2014, The FooBarQuux project` has no legal value if "The FooBarQuux project" is not the legal name of a person, company, incorporated organization, etc.
Formatting
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* Spaces, not tabs.