CONTRIBUTING.md: point to external docs on GitHub

This translates CONTRIBUTING (from the `contributing` branch) into
Markdown using a GitHub URL for the link.  Merging this into your
project will set it up to use GitHub's CONTRIBUTING infrastructure,
and will be used to notify users creating issues and pull requests
[1].

GitHub's blob URL syntax is [2]:

  https://github.com/<user>/<project>/blob/<commit-SHA-1>/Path/To/File

Like CONTRIBUTING, CONTRIBUTING.md is also released under the CC0
Universal license (see the `license` branch for full text).

[1]: https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
[2]: https://help.github.com/articles/how-do-i-get-a-permanent-link-from-file-view-to-permanent-blob-url

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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rename to CONTRIBUTING.md
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ This project tracks patch provenance and licensing using the Developer
 Certificate of Origin and Signed-off-by tags initially developed by
 the Linux kernel project.  Because the documentation for this
 procedure is licensed under the GPLv2, we have chosen not to include
-it in our project directly.  Instead, please see:
+it in our project directly.  Instead, please see
+[SubmittingPatches][], which is stored in an external repository.
 
-  http://git.tremily.us/?p=signed-off-by.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches;h=34055986ab836553896f091225448c448a4cc62c;hb=refs/heads/signed-off-by
+[SubmittingPatches]: https://github.com/wking/signed-off-by/blob/ab5bce80ad2259b47202b28905efff0d04032709/Documentation/SubmittingPatches