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A set of small software licenses, meant to be as short and minimal as
the BSD family, and as customizable as the Creative Commons family.
-Currently a Work-in-Progress.
+There is:
+- a Public Domain Dedication,
+- a Non-commercial License,
+- and a variant of the former with attribution.
+
+Each supports minimal edits to the language, such as changing
+"creator(s)" to "creator" for solo projects, or "software" to "work"
+for non-software projects.
+
+The wizard is available at [aleteoryx.tilde.institute][0].
+
+## Reasoning
+
+The purpose of this project is twofold, and can be best articulated as
+two complaints with the state of software licensing:
+
+- Many commonly used licenses are more verbose than is necessary for
+small projects.
+- Licenses are pigeonholed into either software (GPL, BSD, etc) or
+artistic (CC) categories, with the language of each category not
+well-equipped to handle the other.
+
+TPL seeks to remedy this, by offering terse licenses with configurable
+language.
+
+## Contributing
+
+TPL accepts contributions! The main author is no lawyer, and is mostly
+basing the language here off of existing licenses. If there are
+loopholes or flaws in these, please [let them know][1]!
+
+[0]: https://aleteoryx.tilde.institute/tpl
+[1]: mailto:~aleteoryx/tpl-discuss@lists.amehut.dev