Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate, and Foundation from ZURB.

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

• HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup, style, and .htaccess
• Foundation from ZURB
• 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
• The gallery shortcode has been modified to use <figure> and <figcaption>
• 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

• Source: https://github.com/coreywagehoft/roots-foundation
• Twitter: @coreywagehoft
• Contributors: https://github.com/coreywagehoft/roots-foundation/contributors

• HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
• Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
• jQuery: MIT/GPL license
• Foundation from ZURB

The Unlicense (aka: public domain)