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Provide a proper, highly permission license, recognized by the OSI, to
remove any potential for ambiguity. Addresses concerns around the
inability to elect to place work in the Public Domain.

Fix gh-1139
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necolas committed Aug 8, 2012
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* Add bundled docs (#1154).
* Add MIT license (#1139).
* Code format and consistency changes (#1112).
* Improve `console.log` protection (#1107).
* Replace hot pink text selection color with a neutral color.
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* Revert to async snippet for the Google Analytics script.
* Remove the ant build script (#826).
* Remove Respond.js (#816).
* Remove the `test/` directory.
* Remove the `demo/` directory (#808).
* Remove the `test/` directory (#808).
* Remove Google Chrome Frame script for IE6 users; replace with links to Chrome Frame and options for alternative browsers.
* Remove `initial-scale=1` from the viewport `meta`** (#824).
* Remove `defer` from all scripts to avoid legacy IE bugs.
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Copyright (c) HTML5 Boilerplate

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
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Anyone and everyone is welcome to [contribute](/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/doc/contribute.md). Hundreds of
developers have helped make the HTML5 Boilerplate what it is today.


## License

The Unlicense (aka: public domain)

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