Add Contributing Guidelines with CLA.

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+Grant of License
+----------------
+
+By contributing to this repository, you and the company you represent, if the
+company holds any copyrights in the contribution, grant to the W3C a perpetual,
+non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under all of your
+copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish, use, and modify the
+contribution and to distribute the contribution under a BSD License or one with
+more restrictive terms, as well as a right and license of the same scope to any
+derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on or incorporating all or part
+of the contribution. You further agree that any derivative works of this
+contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
+
+You state, to the best of your knowledge, that you, or the company you
+represent, have all rights necessary to contribute the materials.
+
+W3C will retain attribution of initial authorship to you. The W3C makes no
+a-priori commitment to support or distribute contributions.
+
+Disclaimer
+----------
+
+All content from this repository is provided as is, and W3C makes no
+representations or warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited
+to, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose,
+non-infringement, or title; nor that the contents of this repository are
+suitable for any purpose. We make no representations, express or implied, that
+the content of this repository or the use thereof indicates conformance to a
+specification. All content is provided as-is to help reach interoperability.

README.md

@@ -57,59 +57,11 @@ Contributing
 
 Save the Web, Write Some Tests!
 
-Let's get the legalese out of the way:
-
-You may wish to read the details below, but the **simplest thing to know** is
-this:
-
-* if the company you work for is already a member of the Working Group
-  responsible for the specification, then you don't need to worry; you're
-  already covered
-* if not, you will need to [fill out this form](http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/testgrants2-200409/)
-
-### Grant of License for Contributed Test Cases Published Outside a W3C Recommendation
-
-By contributing to this repository, you, the Contributor, hereby grant
-to the W3C, a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right
-and license under any Contributor copyrights in this contribution to
-copy, publish, use, and modify the contribution and to distribute the
-contribution under a BSD License (see [1] below) or one with more
-restrictive terms, as well as a right and license of the same scope to
-any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or
-incorporating all or part of the contribution. The Contributor further
-agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the
-W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
-
-The Contributor states, to the best of her/his knowledge, that she/he,
-or the company she/he represents, has all rights necessary to
-contribute the Materials.
-
-W3C will retain attribution of initial authorship to the
-Contributor. The W3C makes no a-priori commitment to support or
-distribute contributions.
-
-Note: We can accept tests contributed under compatible conditions,
-just contact us to ask about it.
-
-[1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2008/03-bsd-license.html
-
-### Disclaimer
-
-THE CONTRIBUTION IS PROVIDED AS IS, AND CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO
-REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
-PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR TITLE; THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE DOCUMENT
-ARE SUITABLE FOR ANY PURPOSE. CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS,
-EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT THE CONTRIBUTION OR THE USE THEREOF INDICATES
-CONFORMANCE TO A SPECIFICATION; CONTRIBUTIONS ARE PROVIDED ONLY TO
-HELP REACHING INTEROPERABILITY.
-
-*Legalese over*.
-
-Absolutely everyone is welcome (and even encouraged) to contribute to test 
-development, so long as you fulfil the contribution requirements detailed
-above. No test is too small or too simple, especially if it corresponds to
-something for which you've noted an interoperability bug in a browser.
+Absolutely everyone is welcome (and even encouraged) to contribute to test
+development, so long as you fulfill the contribution requirements detailed
+in the [Contributing Guidelines][contributing]. No test is too small or too
+simple, especially if it corresponds to something for which you've noted an
+interoperability bug in a browser.
 
 The way to contribute is just as usual:
 
@@ -131,5 +83,4 @@ If you wish to contribute actively, you're very welcome to join the
 public-html-testsuite@w3.org mailing list (low traffic) by 
 [signing up to our mailing list](mailto:public-html-testsuite-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe).
 
-
-
+[contributing]: https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md