diff --git a/HACKING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
similarity index 100%
rename from HACKING.md
rename to CONTRIBUTING.md
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
deleted file mode 120000
index 36b0b3a..0000000
--- a/HACKING
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-HACKING.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 1e2f1c8..3f941d6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS = \
 UPDATE_ICON_CACHE = gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t $(datadir)/icons/hicolor || :
 
 EXTRA_ROOTDOC_FILES = \
-	HACKING \
+	CONTRIBUTING.md \
 	DESIGN \
 	README \
 	README-colorramp \
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4f9a52a..890732d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -115,4 +115,4 @@ Latest builds from master branch
 Building from source
 --------------------
 
-See the file [HACKING](HACKING.md) for more details on building from source.
+See the file [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details on building from source.