For GNU licenses, it might be simpler if the --version output merely referred to <http://gnu.org/licenses>,
Ok, I can buy that. So my sense is that what we want to propose to rms is this: hello (GNU hello) 2.1.90 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GNU GPL v2+ (see http://gnu.org/licenses) This is free software. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Along with the assorted other abbreviations for the license-list.html licenses you mentioned. How does that look? Thanks, Karl