first pass at removing licensing

Author: benbalter

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 ## Where You Come In
 
-Help the United States Government make its Open Data policy better by collaborating.  Please suggest enhancements by editing the content here.   
+Help the United States Government make its Open Data policy better by collaborating.  Please suggest enhancements by editing the content here.
 
 ## How to Contribute
 
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 ## License
 
-The project [as originally published](#) constitutes a work of the United States Government and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 USC § 105. Subsequent contributions by members of the public, however, retain their original copyright.
+The project constitutes a work of the United States Government and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 USC § 105.
 
-In order to better facilitate collaboration, the content of this project is licensed under the [Creative Commons 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). 
+Members of the public who wish to contribute, are encourage to do so, but by contributing, dedicate their work to the public domain and waive all rights to their contribution under US copyright law.
+
+Code contributions are dedicated to the public under the terms of the [Unlicense](unlicense.md). Contributions to the text are dedicated under the terms of the [CC0 Public Domain Dedication](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
 
 ## Privacy
 

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+
+This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
+
+Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
+distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
+binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
+means.
+
+In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
+of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
+software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
+of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
+successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
+relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
+software under copyright law.
+
+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 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.
+
+For more information, please refer to [http://unlicense.org]