His point about CVS was what beat you, it's right there to download whenever you want it.  Beyond that, the license used is something that people may care about, hell, listing the platforms it works on would be relevant as well.  I don't contribute much, I mostly dink around, but I do occasionally see things that even I think are stupid - your insistance on not listing licenses is one of those, this information is not only relevant but useful.  Just look at the SSH article, it's got a big list that even lists the programming language that is used in some cases, the license and even the the platform it runs on.