Merge pull request #13 from JuliaPluto/lf-license

add instructions for adding license

Author: lucaferranti

README.md

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-# 18.S191: Introduction to computational thinking for real-world problems
+# Computational thinking template
 
 <p align="center"><a href="https://juliapluto.github.io/computational-thinking-template"> <b>Go to template website</b> :balloon:</a></p>
 
 This repository is a template to build a website like the [Computational thinking course](https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/) tought at MIT.
 
 **Note**: This is an early experiment and very WIP, use at your own risk.
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src/mod1_setup_website/basic_info.md

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 ```
 
 To link a file to a track, you will need to add the track id, prefixed with `track_`, to the tags of the page. For example, to add a lesson to the julia track defined above, you would add the tag `track_julia` to the tags of that lesson file.
+
+## License
+
+Choosing an appropriate license is important to make your material properly reusable.
+
+- For text, popular licenses are [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/), for example [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
+
+- For code, an [OSI open source license](https://opensource.org/licenses/) is recommended. For example [MIT](https://opensource.org/license/mit/) or [Apache 2.0](https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0/) license.
+
+To add the license, open the file `LICENSE.md` and replace the text
+
+```
+<insert license for your material judge>
+```
+
+with your license(s).