Merge pull request #1663 from EliahKagan/proofreading-bikeshed

Assorted small fixes/improvements to root dir docs

Author: Byron

Diff for: AUTHORS

@@ -52,4 +52,5 @@ Contributors are:
 -Joseph Hale <me _at_ jhale.dev>
 -Santos Gallegos <stsewd _at_ proton.me>
 -Wenhan Zhu <wzhu.cosmos _at_ gmail.com>
+
 Portions derived from other open source works and are clearly marked.

Diff for: CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 The following is a short step-by-step rundown of what one typically would do to contribute.
 
-- [fork this project](https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/fork) on GitHub.
+- [Fork this project](https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/fork) on GitHub.
 - For setting up the environment to run the self tests, please run `init-tests-after-clone.sh`.
 - Please try to **write a test that fails unless the contribution is present.**
 - Try to avoid massive commits and prefer to take small steps, with one commit for each.

Diff for: LICENSE

@@ -1,30 +1,29 @@
 Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Michael Trier and contributors
 All rights reserved.
 
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
-modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 are met:
 
-* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 
+* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 
-* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 
-notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 
+* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 
-* Neither the name of the GitPython project nor the names of 
-its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 
+* Neither the name of the GitPython project nor the names of
+its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
 from this software without specific prior written permission.
 
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS 
-"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 
-LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR 
-A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT 
-OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, 
-SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 
-TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR 
-PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF 
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING 
-NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS 
+THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
+"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
+OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
+SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
+TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
+PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
+NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
 SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-

Diff for: README.md

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Please have a look at the [contributions file][contributing].
 
 - [User Documentation](http://gitpython.readthedocs.org)
 - [Questions and Answers](http://stackexchange.com/filters/167317/gitpython)
-- Please post on stackoverflow and use the `gitpython` tag
+- Please post on Stack Overflow and use the `gitpython` tag
 - [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/issues)
   - Post reproducible bugs and feature requests as a new issue.
     Please be sure to provide the following information if posting bugs:
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ gpg --edit-key 4C08421980C9
 
 ### LICENSE
 
-New BSD License. See the LICENSE file.
+[New BSD License](https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/). See the [LICENSE file](https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/main/license).
 
-[contributing]: https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
+[contributing]: https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
+[license]: https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/main/license