From ae04ee01a75a7b79308883f5be4000df28bebd71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Haacked <haacked@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:30:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Adding a readme with a brief project description. --- README.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aca6a93 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +# Choose a License Web Site + +Like a Choose Your Own Adventure site, but only much less interesting. + +# Intro + +A lot of repositories on GitHub.com don't have a license. GitHub could slap on +a license chooser, but if you don't know anything about licenses, how are you +supposed to make an informed decision. + +ChooseALicense.com is designed to help people make an informed decision about +licenses. + +# Immediate Goals + +* Politics Free - Let's just not get into it. +* Well designed, but that goes without saying. +* The homepage should have just enough to help 99% of folks make a decision. +* For the 1%, the site will contain a license chooser similar to +the [creative commons license chooser](http://creativecommons.org/choose/) + +# Design + +I think v1 of the site could be a completely static JavaScript site. No need +for a back end until we actually need it. + +# Community + +We plan to build out the skeleton of the site privately first, but then open +it up to accept contributions. + +Phil will look into whether various open source foundations and lawyers would +be interested in being involved. Probably makes good sense to have a lawyer +review the content before we post it live. \ No newline at end of file