This readme serves as an example readme for a public sector open source project. A brief description of your project would go here.
The Province of British Columbia through the BCDevExchange project has done the leagal beagle homework to provide 2 default licenses for open source material.
Attach the appropriate LICENSE file directly into your repo before you do anything else!
The default license For code repos is: Apache 2.0
and for repos that are made up of docs, wikis and non code stuff it's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
and should look like this at the bottom of your README.md:
YOUR REPO NAME HERE by the Province of Britich Columbia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.