Re: CMSP 17. Better formalization of license field

[David E. Wheeler]

On Oct 10, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

 gpl

The distribution is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public

     License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php).

What version?

There are numerous other ambiguous cases.

Likewise, (the same as) "perl" isn't unambiguous enough for the
truly/duly paranoid.  They want to know what brand of morning cereal
Larry was eating when he wrote a particular Perl.

    license: Lucky Charms

David