jquery/plugins.jquery.com — Issue #16: Link to enumeration of license abbreviations
Author: sbp
Created: 2012-01-06 16:08:35+00:00
State: open

The "licenses" field described in [package.md](https://github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com/blob/master/docs/package.md) requires the use of license abbreviations when provided. Linking to or including the full list of valid abbreviations would help package.json maintainers. I assume the abbreviations are the ones used on [the OSI licenses list](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical). Since the list would also have to be scraped and mirrored for use in the pre-commit package.json validator, perhaps a link to the list that the validator itself uses would be more appropriate, in case it becomes out of sync with the OSI version.

There was [discussion on IRC](http://irc.jquery.com/%23jquery/%23jquery_20120106.log.html#t07:51:57) on #jquery about this.