This is a conventional filename for this and makes it more
discoverable.  The text is small enough that the copy in
CONTRIBUTING can stay a copy, I think.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
---
 CONTRIBUTING          |  6 +++++-
 DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 6ec146baf0..923d1a89d6 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ Developer's Certificate of Origin
 All patches to the Xen Project code base must include the line
 "Signed-off-by: your_name <your_email>" at the end of the change
 description. This is required and indicates that you certify the patch
-under the "Developer's Certificate of Origin" which states:
+under the "Developer's Certificate of Origin".
+
+The declaration you are making with your Signed-off-by can be
+found in xen.git in the file DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE.  For your
+convenience, here is the operative part:
 
   Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
 
diff --git a/DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE b/DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..912d22ee9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/DEVELOPER-CERTIFICATE
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Developer Certificate of Origin
+Version 1.1
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
+1 Letterman Drive
+Suite D4700
+San Francisco, CA, 94129
+
+Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
+license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+
+
+Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
+
+By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
+
+(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
+    have the right to submit it under the open source license
+    indicated in the file; or
+
+(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
+    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
+    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
+    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
+    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
+    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
+    in the file; or
+
+(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
+    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
+    it.
+
+(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
+
-- 
2.11.0


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On 02/01/2020 15:16, Ian Jackson wrote:
> This is a conventional filename for this

Really? Citation definitely needed, because neither Google nor Github
can find a single example matching this.

Linux has its sole copy in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
so ours living in CONTRIBUTING seems perfectly reasonable.

I don't think duplicating this an improvement, and I don't see an issue
with how we've currently got things arranged.

~Andrew

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