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1 | | -# Choosealicense.com |
| 1 | +**[ChooseALicense.com](http://choosealicense.com)** aims to provide **accurate**, **non-judgmental**, and **understandable** information about **open source licenses** in order to **help people make informed decisions** about the projects they start, maintain, contribute to, and use. |
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3 | | -[](https://travis-ci.org/github/choosealicense.com) |
| 3 | +We catalog [select](CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-license) open source licenses with a [Jekyll collection](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/collections/) (in `_licenses`). The catalog is used to render [ChooseALicense.com](http://choosealicense.com) and is regularly vendored into [Licensee](https://github.com/benbalter/licensee), which GitHub uses to provide a [license chooser and license detection](https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-license-to-a-repository/), a [licenses API](https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/), and to [display license descriptions and metadata](https://github.com/blog/2335-open-source-license-descriptions-and-metadata). |
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5 | | -Like a Choose Your Own Adventure site, but only much less interesting. |
| 5 | +The website navigation is |
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7 | | -## Intro |
| 7 | +Collaborative |
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9 | | -A lot of repositories on GitHub.com don't have a license. GitHub provides a license chooser, but if you don't know anything about licenses, how are you supposed to make an informed decision? |
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11 | | -[ChooseALicense.com](http://www.choosealicense.com "Choose A Licence website") is designed to help people make an informed decision about licenses by demystifying license choices through non-judgmental guidance. |
| 10 | +[the CONTRIBUTING file](CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-license) |
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13 | | -## Immediate Goals |
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15 | | -* Non-judgmental. Our goal is to help you find a license that meets *your* goals. |
16 | | -* Well designed, but that goes without saying. |
17 | | -* The homepage should have just enough to help 99% of folks make a decision. |
18 | | -* For the 1%, the site will contain a list of licenses common to specific communities and situations. |
19 | | -* Not comprehensive. Seems like an odd goal, but there are a bajillion licenses out there. We're going to have to filter that down to a small list of those that matter. |
20 | | - |
21 | | -## Run It On Your Machine |
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23 | | -```bash |
24 | | -git clone https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com.git |
25 | | -cd choosealicense.com |
26 | | -script/bootstrap |
27 | | -script/server |
28 | | -``` |
| 13 | +## License |
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30 | | -Open `http://localhost:4000` in your favorite browser. |
| 15 | +The content of this project itself is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en_US), and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). |
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32 | | -## Adding a license |
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34 | | -For information on adding a license, see [the CONTRIBUTING file](https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-license). |
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36 | 19 | ## License metadata |
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@@ -98,7 +81,3 @@ The license properties (rules) are stored as a bulleted list within the licenses |
98 | 81 | * `liability` - This license includes a limitation of liability. |
99 | 82 | * `patent-use` - This license explicitly states that it does NOT grant you any rights in the patents of contributors. |
100 | 83 | * `warranty` - The license explicitly states that it does NOT provide any warranty. |
101 | | - |
102 | | -## License |
103 | | - |
104 | | -The content of this project itself is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en_US), and the underlying source code used to format and display that content is licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). |
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