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authorMichael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>2017-07-19 14:28:14 -0700
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https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643 Add Readme.md with a brief description of the EDK II open source project along with links to contribution agreement, licenses, and resources. Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> Cc: Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com> Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 Signed-off-by: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
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+# EDK II Project
+
+A modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment
+for the UEFI and PI specifications from www.uefi.org.
+
+Contributions to the EDK II open source project are covered by the
+[TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1](Contributions.txt)
+
+The majority of the content in the EDK II open source project uses a
+[BSD 2-Clause License](License.txt). The EDK II open source project contains
+the following components that are covered by additional licenses:
+* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Tools/pybench](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Tools/pybench/LICENSE)
+* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/LICENSE)
+* [AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.10](AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.10/LICENSE)
+* [BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress](BaseTools/Source/C/BrotliCompress/LICENSE)
+* [MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib](MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/LICENSE)
+* [OvmfPkg](OvmfPkg/License.txt)
+* [CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl](CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl/LICENSE)
+
+The EDK II Project is composed of packages. The maintainers for each package
+are listed in [Maintainers.txt](Maintainers.txt).
+
+# Resources
+* [TianoCore](http://www.tianocore.org)
+* [EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK-II)
+* [Getting Started with EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Getting-Started-with-EDK-II)
+* [Mailing Lists](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Mailing-Lists)
+* [TianoCore Bugzilla](https://bugzilla.tianocore.org)
+* [How To Contribute](https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-To-Contribute)