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This is a VERY ROUGH take on the landing page. The basic idea is we want to present 3 licenses on the home page and just enough info for people to choose one of the three. But we'll provide links for folks who need to dig deeper and choose a license that better fits their needs. The design right now is blatantly stolen from KOD. But that's just to make the early draft look pretty. That's not the intended final design.
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
- Not comprehensive. Seems like an odd goal, but there are a bajillion (I counted) licenses out there. We're going to have to filter that down to a small list of those that matter.
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.