--- /dev/null
+# Welcome to Perltidy
+
+Perltidy is a tool to indent and reformat scripts written in Perl5.
+
+Perltidy is free software released under the GNU General Public
+License -- please see the included file "COPYING" for details.
+
+Documentation can be found at the web site [at GitHub](https://perltidy.github.io/perltidy/)
+or [at Sourceforge](http://perltidy.sourceforge.net)
+
+A copy of the web site is contained in the docs folder of the distribution.