CONTRIBUTING.md: mention the "Link:" tag

v2:
 - tag -> trailer

Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Link: https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/pull/134
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>

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@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ If your commit covers a topic raised in an issue, but does not resolve the issue
 itself; or otherwise refers to a more complicated topic, you can use
 `Reference:`.
 
+### Link(s)
+
+The use of `Link:` trailer is reserved and should be used only to point to the
+patch origin. Be that the GitHub pull request, or the mailing list archive.
+
+You can add it yourself, although usually the maintainer will include it when
+merging the patch.
+
 ### Bugfixes, regressions
 
 Nobody is perfect and regressions happen from time to time. Whenever a commit