Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap from Twitter.

• Clone the git repo - git clone git://github.com/retlehs/roots.git - or download it
• Read Theme Activation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots

• HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup, style, and .htaccess
• Bootstrap from Twitter
• Clean URLs (no more /wp-content/)
• All static theme assets are rewritten to the website root (/css/, /img/, and /js/)
• Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
• Root relative URLs
• Posts use the hNews microformat
• wp_head has been cleaned up along with the output of enqueued styles and scripts
• Robots.txt optimized for SEO
• Multilingual ready (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, and Turkish)

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. There are several ways you can help out:

1. Raising issues on GitHub
2. Sending pull requests for bug fixes or new features and improvements
3. Making the docs better
4. Replying to questions on the mailing list

• Source: https://github.com/retlehs/roots
• Web: http://rootstheme.com/
• Docs: https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme
• Twitter: @retlehs
• Contributors: https://github.com/retlehs/roots/contributors

• HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
• Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
• jQuery: MIT/GPL license
• Normalize.css: Public Domain
• Bootstrap: Apache 2.0 license

The Unlicense (aka: public domain)