diff --git a/.github/dco.yml b/.github/dco.yml
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/dco.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+require:
+  members: false
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.adoc b/CONTRIBUTING.adoc
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--- a/CONTRIBUTING.adoc
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.adoc
@@ -12,13 +12,9 @@ please ask on https://stackoverflow.com[Stack Overflow]. The Spring Tools team a
 broader community monitor the https://stackoverflow.com/tags/spring-tools-4[`spring-tools-4`]
 tag.
 
-== Sign the Contributor License Agreement
-Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request we will need you to
-https://cla.pivotal.io/sign/sts[sign the Contributor License Agreement].
-Signing the contributor's agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main
-repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions, and you will get an
-author credit if we do.  Active contributors might be asked to join the core team, and
-given the ability to merge pull requests.
+== Developer Certificate of Origin
+All commits must include a __Signed-off-by__ trailer at the end of each commit message to indicate that the contributor agrees to the Developer Certificate of Origin.
+For additional details, please refer to the blog post https://spring.io/blog/2025/01/06/hello-dco-goodbye-cla-simplifying-contributions-to-spring[Hello DCO, Goodbye CLA: Simplifying Contributions to Spring].
 
 == Code Conventions and Housekeeping
 None of these is essential for a pull request, but they will all help.  They can also be