Contributing Translations to Plain License

We’re excited about making Plain License accessible in multiple languages! While we’re still building out our multi-language system, we welcome contributions and ideas from both developers and translators.

For Developers: Help Us Build Multi-Language Support

We’re looking for ideas on how to best support multiple languages across Plain License. This includes:

1. Individual license translations
2. Site-wide internationalization (i18n)
3. General site content in other languages

If you have experience with internationalization in web projects, we’d love to hear your ideas! Open an issue on our GitHub Issues page ➚ with your proposal. Please include:

• A clear title describing your proposal
• A detailed description of how your approach would work
• Any challenges or considerations
• Your experience with similar setups, if you have any

Tag your issue with the “enhancement” and “i18n” labels.

We’ll review all proposals and discuss them with the community to find the best path forward.

For Translators: Help Us Prepare

Even though we don’t have a full system in place yet, your translations are valuable and will help us prepare for multi-language support!

Contributing License Translations

To contribute a license translation:

1. Follow the instructions in our license recrafting guidelines.
2. When naming your file, add the language code to the filename. For example, a Spanish translation of the MIT license would be mit.es.md.
   • We use ISO 639-1 two-letter language codes ➚ where possible.
   • For languages or dialects that need more detail, use the appropriate IETF language tag ➚. For example, mit.zh-Hans.md for Simplified Chinese.

Contributing Other Translations

For other site content or documentation:

1. Create a new file with the same name as the original, but add the language code before the file extension. For example, about.md would become about.es.md for Spanish.
2. Translate the content, keeping the original Markdown formatting.
3. Submit your translation as described in our general contribution guidelines.

What’s Next

We’re working on implementing multi-language support. In the meantime, your contributions will be stored and ready for integration once we have a system in place. We’ll keep you updated on our progress.

Thank you for helping make Plain License accessible to a global audience!