License: Artistic-2.0

The 'MIT +no-false-attribs' license was a hacked jury-rigged thing
that half-does what the Artistic-2.0 does much better.

LICENSE

@@ -1,42 +1,218 @@
-Copyright (c) Isaac Z. Schlueter (the "Original Author")
+Copyright (c) Isaac Z. Schlueter
 All rights reserved.
 
-MIT +no-false-attribs License
-
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+npm is released under the Artistic 2.0 License.
+The text of the License follows:
+
+
+--------
+
+
+The Artistic License 2.0
+
+Copyright (c) 2000-2006, The Perl Foundation.
+
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+
+
+--------
+
 
 "Node.js" and "node" trademark Joyent, Inc. npm is not officially
 part of the Node.js project, and is neither owned by nor
@@ -55,11 +231,5 @@ Copyright (c) by Tjarda Koster, http://jelloween.deviantart.com
 included for use in the npm website and documentation,
 used with permission.
 
-This program uses "request", Copyright (c) Mikeal Rogers,
-according to the terms of the Apache license.
-
-This program uses "mkdirp",  Copyright (c) James Halliday,
-according to the terms of the MIT/X11 license.
-
-This program uses "opener", Copyright (c) Domenic Denicola,
-according to the terms of the DWTFPL2 license.
+This program uses several Node modules contained in the node_modules/
+subdirectory, according to the terms of their respective licenses.

package.json

@@ -134,10 +134,5 @@
     "dumpconf": "env | grep npm | sort | uniq",
     "echo": "node bin/npm-cli.js"
   },
-  "licenses": [
-    {
-      "type": "MIT +no-false-attribs",
-      "url": "https://github.com/isaacs/npm/raw/master/LICENSE"
-    }
-  ]
+  "license": "Artistic-2.0"
 }