Add README.md, update license (MIT -2019)

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-Copyright (c) 2018 Drew DeVault
+Copyright (c) 2018-2019 Drew DeVault
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# aerc
+
+aerc is a *work in progress* email client for your terminal.
+
+It is not yet suitable for daily use.
+
+## Building
+
+    go build
+
+## Usage
+
+Start by copying the example configs, `config/aerc.conf` and
+`config/accounts.conf` and editing them to taste, to `~/.config`. Then run
+`./aerc2`.
+
+## Contributing
+
+Send patches to
+[~sircmpwn/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht](mailto:~sircmpwn/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht).