Add COMMITMENT file as part of GPL Common Cure Rights Commitment

This is part of more broader commitment Red Hat along with IBM, Google, and
Facebook made in November 2017.

More on this can be found online:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fostering-greater-open-source-development &
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/gplv3-enforcement-statement

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+Common Cure Rights Commitment, version 1.0
+
+Before filing or continuing to prosecute any legal proceeding or claim
+(other than a Defensive Action) arising from termination of a Covered
+License, we commit to extend to the person or entity ('you') accused
+of violating the Covered License the following provisions regarding
+cure and reinstatement, taken from GPL version 3. As used here, the
+term 'this License' refers to the specific Covered License being
+enforced.
+
+    However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your
+    license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a)
+    provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly
+    and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the
+    copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some
+    reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.
+
+    Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
+    reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
+    violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you
+    have received notice of violation of this License (for any work)
+    from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30
+    days after your receipt of the notice.
+
+We intend this Commitment to be irrevocable, and binding and
+enforceable against us and assignees of or successors to our
+copyrights.
+
+Definitions
+
+'Covered License' means the GNU General Public License, version 2
+(GPLv2), the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
+(LGPLv2.1), or the GNU Library General Public License, version 2
+(LGPLv2), all as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+'Defensive Action' means a legal proceeding or claim that We bring
+against you in response to a prior proceeding or claim initiated by
+you or your affiliate.
+
+'We' means each contributor to this repository as of the date of
+inclusion of this file, including subsidiaries of a corporate
+contributor.
+
+This work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
+4.0 International license.