ConsentCanvas

ABOUT

	ConsentCanvas uses unsupervised natural language processing (NLP)
	techniques to make end-user license agreements (EULAs) more readable.
	A plaintext EULA is the input, and the output is an HTML5 document.

REQUIREMENTS

	ConsentCanvas requires:

		Python 2.6.5+
		NLTK 2.0b9
		a modified version of the markup library
			(originally from http://markup.sourceforge.net)
			(this is included in markup.py)	


USE

	To use ConsentCanvas, type:

		python ConsentCanvas.py <eula>

	where <eula> is a plaintext end user license agreement. The HTML5
	document will be printed to standard output, so you may want to
	use the following command on a Unix system:

		python ConsentCanvas.py <eula> > output.html

	Then, copy textured-agreement-clean-1.css to the same folder as
	your output file (output.html in this case), and open your output
	file with your favourite browser.


NOTES ON COMPLETENESS

	ConsentCanvas is a work-in-progress. Although this is a working
	implementation, many improvements are necessary before it can
	reliably improve readability. As well, no official verification
	of said improvements have yet been conducted.


LICENSE

    Copyright (C) 2011  Oliver Schneider and Alex Garnett.

	This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	(at your option) any later version.

	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
	GNU General Public License for more details.

	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.