diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py b/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py
index 2cff160066e2..d09016ebf76d 100755
--- a/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/lu/luarocks-packages-updater/updater.py
@@ -66,6 +66,35 @@ FOOTER = (
     + "\n"
 )
 
+LICENSE_NORMALIZATION = {
+    "AGPL-3.0": "lib.licenses.agpl3Only",
+    "Apache 2": "lib.licenses.asl20",
+    "Apache 2.0": "lib.licenses.asl20",
+    "Apache-2.0": "lib.licenses.asl20",
+    "Apache License Version 2": "lib.licenses.asl20",
+    "BSD-2-Clause": "lib.licenses.bsd2",
+    "BSD-3-Clause": "lib.licenses.bsd3",
+    "GPL-2+": "lib.licenses.gpl2Plus",
+    "GPL-2.0": "lib.licenses.gpl2Only",
+    "GPL-2.0-only": "lib.licenses.gpl2Only",
+    "GPL-2.0-or-later": "lib.licenses.gpl2Plus",
+    "GPL-3.0": "lib.licenses.gpl3Only",
+    "GPL-3.0-only": "lib.licenses.gpl3Only",
+    "GPL-3.0-or-later": "lib.licenses.gpl3Plus",
+    "ISC": "lib.licenses.isc",
+    "LGPL-2.0": "lib.licenses.lgpl2Only",
+    "LGPL-2.1": "lib.licenses.lgpl21Only",
+    "LGPL-3.0": "lib.licenses.lgpl3Only",
+    "MIT": "lib.licenses.mit",
+    "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>": "lib.licenses.mit",
+    "MPL-2.0": "lib.licenses.mpl20",
+    "Unlicense": "lib.licenses.unlicense",
+    "2-clause BSD": "lib.licenses.bsd2",
+    "Two-clause BSD": "lib.licenses.bsd2",
+}
+
+LICENSE_FULL_NAME_RE = re.compile(r'(?P<indent>\s*)license\.fullName = "(?P<license>[^"]+)";')
+
 
 @dataclass
 class LuaPlugin:
@@ -105,6 +134,18 @@ def extract_rev(nix_expr: str) -> str | None:
     return None
 
 
+def normalize_license_metadata(nix_expr: str) -> str:
+    def replace(match: re.Match[str]) -> str:
+        license_full_name = match.group("license")
+        license_attr = LICENSE_NORMALIZATION.get(license_full_name)
+        if license_attr is None:
+            return match.group(0)
+        indent = match.group("indent")
+        return f"{indent}license = {license_attr};"
+
+    return LICENSE_FULL_NAME_RE.sub(replace, nix_expr)
+
+
 def commit_files(repo, message: str, files: list[Path]) -> None:
     worktree = repo.working_tree_dir
     paths = [str(path) for path in files]
@@ -470,6 +511,7 @@ def generate_pkg_nix(plug: LuaPlugin):
 
         output = run_luarocks(cmd)
         ## FIXME: luarocks nix command output isn't formatted properly
+        output = normalize_license_metadata(output)
         output = "callPackage(\n" + output.strip() + ") {};\n\n"
         return (plug, output, None)
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 97a992d11795..cb9c236cab84 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/kikito/ansicolors.lua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ Freed-Wu ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Library for color Manipulation.";
         longDescription = ''
           Ansicolors is a simple Lua function for printing to the console in color.
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/luarocks/argparse";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A feature-rich command-line argument parser";
         longDescription = "Argparse supports positional arguments, options, flags, optional arguments, subcommands and more. Argparse automatically generates usage, help, and error messages, and can generate shell completion scripts.";
       };
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/aiq/basexx";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A base2, base16, base32, base64 and base85 library for Lua";
         longDescription = "A Lua library which provides base2(bitfield), base16(hex), base32(crockford/rfc), base64(rfc/url), base85(z85) decoding and encoding.";
       };
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://github.com/mikejsavage/lua-bcrypt";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ulysseszhan ];
-        license.fullName = "ISC";
+        license = lib.licenses.isc;
         description = "A Lua wrapper for bcrypt";
       };
     }
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#6.7";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lblasc ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua 5.2 bit manipulation library";
         longDescription = ''
           bit32 is the native Lua 5.2 bit manipulation library, in the version
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://lunarmodules.github.io/busted/";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Elegant Lua unit testing";
         longDescription = ''
           An elegant, extensible, testing framework.
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/hishamhm/busted-htest";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A pretty output handler for Busted";
         longDescription = ''
           This is an alternative output handler for Busted,
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/sile-typesetter/cassowary.lua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alerque ];
-        license.fullName = "Apache 2";
+        license = lib.licenses.asl20;
         description = "The cassowary constraint solver";
         longDescription = ''
           This is a Lua port of the Cassowary constraint solving toolkit.
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://linrongbin16.github.io/commons.nvim/";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "The commons lua library for Neovim plugin project.";
       };
     }
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lunarmodules/lua-compat-5.3";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ vcunat ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Compatibility module providing Lua-5.3-style APIs for Lua 5.2 and 5.1";
         longDescription = ''
           This is a small module that aims to make it easier to write Lua
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/teal-language/cyan";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A build system for the Teal language";
         longDescription = "A build system for the Teal language along with an api for external tooling to work with Teal";
       };
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://leafo.net/lua-enet";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ulysseszhan ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A library for doing network communication in Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           Binding to ENet, network communication layer on top of UDP.
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/leafo/etlua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ulysseszhan ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Embedded templates for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           Allows you to render ERB style templates but with Lua. Supports <% %>, <%=
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://fennel-lang.org";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ misterio77 ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A lisp that compiles to Lua";
         longDescription = "Get your parens on--write macros and homoiconic code on the Lua runtime!";
       };
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/j-hui/fidget.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Extensible UI for Neovim notifications and LSP progress messages.";
         longDescription = ''
           Fidget is an unintrusive window in the corner of your editor that manages its own lifetime.
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/alerque/fluent-lua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alerque ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua implementation of Project Fluent";
         longDescription = ''
           A Lua port of Project Fluent, a localization paradigm designed to unleash
@@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/aikooo7/funnyfiles.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "This plugin is a way of creating/deleting files/folders without needing to open a file explorer.";
       };
     }
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "AGPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.agpl3Only;
         description = "Improved fzf.vim written in lua";
       };
     }
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/swarn/fzy-lua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A lua implementation of the fzy fuzzy matching algorithm";
         longDescription = ''
           A Lua port of fzy's fuzzy string matching algorithm.
@@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Git integration for buffers";
       };
     }
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/MagicDuck/grug-far.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ teto ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Find And Replace plugin for neovim";
       };
     }
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/mrcjkb/haskell-tools.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
         description = " 🦥 Supercharge your Haskell experience in neovim!";
         longDescription = ''
           This plugin automatically configures the haskell-language-server builtin LSP client
@@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ vcunat ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "HTTP library for Lua";
       };
     }
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua table visualizer, ideal for debugging";
         longDescription = ''
           inspect will print out your lua tables nicely so you can debug your programs quickly. It sorts keys by type and name and handles recursive tables properly.
@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/kmarius/jsregexp";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "javascript (ECMA19) regular expressions for lua";
         longDescription = ''
           Provides ECMAScript regular expressions for Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and LuaJit. Uses libregexp from Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS.
@@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://lunarmodules.github.io/ldoc";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A Lua Documentation Tool";
         longDescription = ''
           LDoc is a LuaDoc-compatible documentation generator which can also
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://www.myriabit.com/ljsyscall/";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lblasc ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "LuaJIT Linux syscall FFI";
       };
     }
@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/jeffzi/llscheck";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Human-friendly Lua code analysis powered by Lua Language Server";
         longDescription = ''
           LLSCheck runs Lua Language Server diagnostics and formats results for humans.
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/leafo/loadkit";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alerque ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Loadkit allows you to load arbitrary files within the Lua package path";
         longDescription = ''
           Loadkit lets you register new file extension handlers that can be opened
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/daurnimator/lpeg_patterns/archive/v0.5.zip";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "a collection of LPEG patterns";
       };
     }
@@ -1868,7 +1868,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://linrongbin16.github.io/lsp-progress.nvim/";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ gepbird ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A performant lsp progress status for Neovim.";
       };
     }
@@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://lua.sqlite.org/";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A binding for Lua to the SQLite3 database library";
         longDescription = ''
           lsqlite3 is a thin wrapper around the public domain SQLite3 database engine. SQLite3 is
@@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/euclidianAce/ltreesitter";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Treesitter bindings to Lua";
         longDescription = "Standalone Lua bindings to the Treesitter api (with full type definitions for Teal).";
       };
@@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/FourierTransformer/ltreesitter-ts";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Treesitter parsing library bindings for Lua";
         longDescription = "This combines [ltreesitter](https://github.com/EuclidianAce/ltreesitter) and the [tree-sitter](https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter) library together to have an easy LuaRocks based install for tree sitter parsing. There are no other enhancements to either library. It can be imported as just `ltreesitter`.";
       };
@@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/lua-cjson.php";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A fast JSON encoding/parsing module";
         longDescription = ''
           The Lua CJSON module provides JSON support for Lua. It features:
@@ -2038,7 +2038,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://github.com/antirez/lua-cmsgpack";
-        license.fullName = "Two-clause BSD";
+        license = lib.licenses.bsd2;
         description = "MessagePack C implementation and bindings for Lua 5.1/5.2/5.3";
       };
     }
@@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/Alloyed/lua-lsp";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A Language Server implementation for lua, the language";
         longDescription = ''
           A Language Server for Lua code, written in Lua.
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/starwing/lua-protobuf";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lockejan ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "protobuf data support for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           This project offers a simple C library for basic protobuf wire format encode/decode.
@@ -2289,7 +2289,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/ledgetech/lua-resty-http";
-        license.fullName = "2-clause BSD";
+        license = lib.licenses.bsd2;
         description = "Lua HTTP client cosocket driver for OpenResty / ngx_lua.";
       };
     }
@@ -2323,7 +2323,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/cdbattags/lua-resty-jwt";
-        license.fullName = "Apache License Version 2";
+        license = lib.licenses.asl20;
         description = "JWT for ngx_lua and LuaJIT.";
         longDescription = ''
           This library requires an nginx build
@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/zmartzone/lua-resty-openidc";
-        license.fullName = "Apache 2.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.asl20;
         description = "A library for NGINX implementing the OpenID Connect Relying Party (RP) and the OAuth 2.0 Resource Server (RS) functionality";
         longDescription = ''
           lua-resty-openidc is a library for NGINX implementing the OpenID Connect Relying Party (RP) and the OAuth 2.0 Resource Server (RS) functionality.
@@ -2480,7 +2480,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lblasc/lua-rtoml";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lblasc ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua bindings for the Rust toml crate.";
       };
     }
@@ -2508,7 +2508,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/xlq/lua-subprocess";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ scoder12 ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A Lua module written in C that allows you to create child processes and communicate with them.";
         longDescription = "A Lua module written in C that allows you to create child processes and communicate with them. The API is based on the Python subprocess module, but is not yet as complete.";
       };
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/jonstoler/lua-toml";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "toml decoder/encoder for Lua";
         longDescription = "TOML 0.4.0 compliant Lua library with tests. Serializes TOML into a Lua table, and serlaizes Lua tables into TOML.";
       };
@@ -2596,7 +2596,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorg/lua-utils.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A set of utility functions for Neovim plugins.";
         longDescription = ''
           This repository contains a small set of nicities for performing repetitive tasks within Neovim.
@@ -2667,7 +2667,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/brimworks/lua-zlib";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ koral ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Simple streaming interface to zlib for Lua.";
         longDescription = ''
           Simple streaming interface to zlib for Lua.
@@ -2705,7 +2705,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lunarmodules/lua_cliargs.git";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A command-line argument parsing module for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           This module adds support for accepting CLI arguments easily using multiple
@@ -2781,7 +2781,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lunarmodules/luacheck";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A static analyzer and a linter for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           Luacheck is a command-line tool for linting and static analysis of Lua
@@ -2820,7 +2820,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://lunarmodules.github.ioluacov/";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Coverage analysis tool for Lua scripts";
         longDescription = ''
           LuaCov is a simple coverage analysis tool for Lua scripts.
@@ -2861,7 +2861,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/daurnimator/luacov-reporter-lcov";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ulysseszhan ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A luacov reporter for use with lcov";
       };
     }
@@ -3074,7 +3074,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://siffiejoe.github.io/lua-luaepnf/";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Extended PEG Notation Format (easy grammars for LPeg)";
         longDescription = ''
           This Lua module provides sugar for writing grammars/parsers using
@@ -3107,7 +3107,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/harningt/luaevent";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "libevent binding for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           This is a binding of libevent to Lua
@@ -3255,7 +3255,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://lualdap.github.io/lualdap/";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ aanderse ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A Lua interface to the OpenLDAP library";
         longDescription = ''
           LuaLDAP is a simple interface from Lua to an LDAP client, in
@@ -3294,7 +3294,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A blazing fast and easy to configure neovim statusline plugin written in pure lua.";
       };
     }
@@ -3523,7 +3523,7 @@ final: prev: {
           mrcjkb
           teto
         ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A package manager for Lua modules.";
         longDescription = ''
           LuaRocks allows you to install Lua modules as self-contained
@@ -3562,7 +3562,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/mlua-rs/luarocks-build-rust-mlua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A LuaRocks build backend for Lua modules written in Rust using mlua";
       };
     }
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/FourierTransformer/luarocks-build-tree-sitter-cli";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A LuaRocks build backend to install the tree-sitter CLI";
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@@ -3628,7 +3628,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lumen-oss/luarocks-build-treesitter-parser";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A luarocks build backend for tree-sitter parsers.";
       };
     }
@@ -3661,7 +3661,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lumen-oss/luarocks-build-treesitter-parser-cpp";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A luarocks build backend for tree-sitter parsers written in C++.";
       };
     }
@@ -3696,7 +3696,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/brunoos/luasec/wiki";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ flosse ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A binding for OpenSSL library to provide TLS/SSL communication over LuaSocket.";
         longDescription = "This version delegates to LuaSocket the TCP connection establishment between the client and server. Then LuaSec uses this connection to start a secure TLS/SSL session.";
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@@ -3729,7 +3729,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/L3MON4D3/LuaSnip";
-        license.fullName = "Apache-2.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.asl20;
         description = "Snippet Engine for Neovim written in Lua.";
       };
     }
@@ -3761,7 +3761,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lunarmodules/luasocket";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Network support for the Lua language";
         longDescription = ''
           LuaSocket is a Lua extension library composed of two parts: a set of C
@@ -3838,7 +3838,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://lunarmodules.github.io/busted/";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua assertions extension";
         longDescription = ''
           Adds a framework that allows registering new assertions
@@ -3874,7 +3874,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lunarmodules/luasystem";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Platform independent system calls for Lua.";
         longDescription = ''
           Adds a Lua API for making platform independent system calls.
@@ -3909,7 +3909,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/f4z3r/luatext/tree/main";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A small library to print colored text";
         longDescription = ''
           A libary providing an abstaction over ANSI escape codes
@@ -3944,7 +3944,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://www.zash.se/luaunbound.html";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A binding to libunbound";
       };
     }
@@ -4024,7 +4024,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://github.com/starwing/luautf8";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pstn ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A UTF-8 support module for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           This module adds UTF-8 support to Lua. It's compatible with Lua "string" module.
@@ -4060,7 +4060,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/mpeterv/luazip";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Library for reading files inside zip files";
         longDescription = ''
           LuaZip is a lightweight Lua extension library used to read files
@@ -4099,7 +4099,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/svermeulen/lusc_luv";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Structured Async/Concurrency for Lua using Luv";
         longDescription = "Structured Async/Concurrency for Lua using Luv";
       };
@@ -4235,7 +4235,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/lz.n";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2+";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
         description = "🦥 A dead simple lazy-loading Lua library for Neovim plugins.";
         longDescription = ''
           It is intended to be used
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/lze";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ birdee ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2+";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
         description = "A lazy-loading library for neovim, inspired by, but different from, nvim-neorocks/lz.n";
         longDescription = ''
           It is intended to be used
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/lzextras";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ birdee ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2+";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
         description = "A collection of utilities and handlers for BirdeeHub/lze";
         longDescription = "A collection of extensions for BirdeeHub/lze";
       };
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/horriblename/lzn-auto-require";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
         description = "Auto load optional plugins via lua modules with lz.n";
       };
     }
@@ -4372,7 +4372,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/leafo/magick.git";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ donovanglover ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua bindings to ImageMagick & GraphicsMagick for LuaJIT using FFI";
       };
     }
@@ -4465,7 +4465,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://olivinelabs.com/mediator_lua/";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Event handling through channels";
         longDescription = ''
           mediator_lua allows you to subscribe and publish to a central object so
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/ColinKennedy/mega.cmdparse";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A Neovim command-mode parser. Similar to Python's argparse module";
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     }
@@ -4528,7 +4528,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/ColinKennedy/mega.logging";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A Neovim plugin for logging to Neovim or to disk";
       };
     }
@@ -4557,7 +4557,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/kikito/middleclass";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A simple OOP library for Lua";
         longDescription = "It has inheritance, metamethods (operators), class variables and weak mixin support";
       };
@@ -4626,7 +4626,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.test";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Test neovim plugins. Part of the mini.nvim suite.";
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     }
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       meta = {
         homepage = "http://moonscript.org";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ arobyn ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua";
         longDescription = "A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua";
       };
@@ -4686,7 +4686,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/libmpack/libmpack-lua";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua binding to libmpack";
       };
     }
@@ -4731,7 +4731,7 @@ final: prev: {
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         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ GaetanLepage ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.";
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     }
@@ -4763,7 +4763,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/benlubas/neorg-interim-ls";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Temporarily providing a limited set of LSP features to neorg";
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     }
@@ -4800,7 +4800,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neotest/neotest";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "An extensible framework for interacting with tests within NeoVim.";
       };
     }
@@ -4833,7 +4833,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/knyar/nginx-lua-prometheus";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ulysseszhan ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Prometheus metric library for Nginx";
       };
     }
@@ -4864,7 +4864,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/mfussenegger/nlua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ teto ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "Neovim as Lua interpreter";
         longDescription = ''
           Neovim embeds a Lua interpreter, but it doesn't expose the same command line interface as plain lua.
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/MunifTanjim/nui.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "UI Component Library for Neovim.";
         longDescription = ''
           UI Component Library for Neovim.
@@ -4929,7 +4929,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A completion plugin for neovim";
         longDescription = ''
           A completion engine plugin for neovim written in Lua. Completion sources are installed from external repositories and "sourced".
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neotest/nvim-nio";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A library for asynchronous IO in Neovim";
       };
     }
@@ -4993,7 +4993,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-tree/nvim-web-devicons";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Nerd Font icons for neovim";
         longDescription = ''
           Coloured Nerd Font file icons for neovim.
@@ -5029,7 +5029,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Neovim file explorer: edit your filesystem like a buffer";
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     }
@@ -5059,7 +5059,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://nvim-orgmode.github.io";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Orgmode clone written in Lua for Neovim 0.11.0+.";
       };
     }
@@ -5096,7 +5096,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/jghauser/papis.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ GaetanLepage ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "Manage your bibliography from within your favourite editor";
         longDescription = ''
           Papis.nvim is a neovim companion plugin for the bibliography manager papis. 
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       meta = {
         homepage = "https://pysan3.github.io/pathlib.nvim/";
-        license.fullName = "MPL-2.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.mpl20;
         description = "OS Independent, ultimate solution to path handling in neovim.";
         longDescription = ''
           This plugin aims to decrease the difficulties of path management across mutliple OSs in neovim.
@@ -5233,7 +5233,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-psl";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Bindings to libpsl, a C library that handles the Public Suffix List (PSL)";
         longDescription = ''
           Bindings to libpsl, a C library that handles the Public Suffix List (PSL).
@@ -5279,7 +5279,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/xpol/lua-rapidjson";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Json module based on the very fast RapidJSON.";
         longDescription = "A json module for Lua 5.1/5.2/5.3 and LuaJIT based on the very fast RapidJSON.";
       };
@@ -5323,7 +5323,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/rest-nvim/rest.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ teto ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "A very fast, powerful, extensible and asynchronous Neovim HTTP client written in Lua.";
         longDescription = ''
           A very fast, powerful, extensible and asynchronous Neovim HTTP client written in Lua.
@@ -5359,7 +5359,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lumen-oss/rocks-config.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "Allow rocks.nvim to help configure your plugins.";
         longDescription = ''
           rocks-config.nvim is a rocks.nvim utility module for helping to configure
@@ -5405,7 +5405,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks-dev.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "A swiss-army knife for testing and developing rocks.nvim modules.";
         longDescription = ''
           rocks-dev.nvim is a rocks.nvim utility module, serving as a swiss army knife
@@ -5447,7 +5447,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lumen-oss/rocks-git.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "Use rocks.nvim to install plugins from git!";
       };
     }
@@ -5492,7 +5492,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lumen-oss/rocks.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "🌒 Neovim plugin management inspired by Cargo, powered by luarocks";
         longDescription = ''
           rocks.nvim is an all in one solution for installing and managing
@@ -5537,7 +5537,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rtp.nvim";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-3.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl3Only;
         description = "Source plugin and ftdetect directories on the Neovim runtimepath.";
       };
     }
@@ -5568,7 +5568,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/mrcjkb/rustaceanvim/archive/refs/tags/v9.0.4.zip";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2.0-only";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
         description = "🦀 Supercharge your Rust experience in Neovim! A heavily modified fork of rust-tools.nvim";
       };
     }
@@ -5600,7 +5600,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://lunarmodules.github.io/say";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua string hashing/indexing library";
         longDescription = ''
           Useful for internationalization.
@@ -5637,7 +5637,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/pkulchenko/serpent";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ lockejan ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Lua serializer and pretty printer";
       };
     }
@@ -5681,7 +5681,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/f4z3r/sofa";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ f4z3r ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A command execution engine powered by rofi.";
         longDescription = ''
           A tool to organise and execute your commands, so convenient you can
@@ -5717,7 +5717,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/tami5/sqlite.lua";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "SQLite/LuaJIT binding and a highly opinionated wrapper for storing, retrieving, caching, and persisting [SQLite] databases";
       };
     }
@@ -5872,7 +5872,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/teal-language/teal-language-server";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A language server for the Teal language";
         longDescription = "A language server for the Teal language";
       };
@@ -5905,7 +5905,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/mrcjkb/telescope-manix";
-        license.fullName = "GPL-2.0";
+        license = lib.licenses.gpl2Only;
         description = "A telescope.nvim extension for Manix - A fast documentation searcher for Nix";
         longDescription = ''
           Manix is a fast documentation searcher for nix.
@@ -5942,7 +5942,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Find, Filter, Preview, Pick. All lua, all the time.";
         longDescription = ''
           A highly extendable fuzzy finder over lists.
@@ -5983,7 +5983,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/gptlang/lua-tiktoken";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ natsukium ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "An experimental port of OpenAI's Tokenizer to lua";
         longDescription = ''
           The Lua module written in Rust that provides Tiktoken support for Lua.
@@ -6023,7 +6023,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/teal-language/tl";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mephistophiles ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Teal, a typed dialect of Lua";
       };
     }
@@ -6054,7 +6054,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/tomlua";
         maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.birdee ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Speedy toml parsing for lua, implemented in C";
         longDescription = ''
           Speedy toml parsing for lua, implemented in C
@@ -6090,7 +6090,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/lumen-oss/toml-edit.lua";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "TOML Parser + Formatting and Comment-Preserving Editor";
         longDescription = ''
           `toml-edit` is a library to parse and edit `.toml` files as if they were lua tables, all while preserving formatting and comments.
@@ -6125,7 +6125,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/FourierTransformer/tree-sitter-cli";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Install tree-sitter CLI binaries";
         longDescription = "An option to install the tree-sitter CLI via LuaRocks";
       };
@@ -6189,7 +6189,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorg/tree-sitter-norg";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ mrcjkb ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "The official tree-sitter parser for Norg documents.";
       };
     }
@@ -6219,7 +6219,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-neorg/tree-sitter-norg-meta";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "Treesitter parser for Norg's `@document.meta` blocks.";
       };
     }
@@ -6249,7 +6249,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/nvim-orgmode/tree-sitter-org";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A fork of tree-sitter-org, for use with the orgmode Neovim plugin";
       };
     }
@@ -6313,7 +6313,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://github.com/starwing/luautf8";
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "A UTF-8 support module for Lua";
         longDescription = ''
           This module adds UTF-8 support to Lua. It's compatible with Lua "string" module.
@@ -6383,7 +6383,7 @@ final: prev: {
 
       meta = {
         homepage = "https://github.com/notomo/vusted";
-        license.fullName = "MIT <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "`busted` wrapper for testing neovim plugin";
       };
     }
@@ -6416,7 +6416,7 @@ final: prev: {
       meta = {
         homepage = "http://manoelcampos.github.io/xml2lua/";
         maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ teto ];
-        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        license = lib.licenses.mit;
         description = "An XML Parser written entirely in Lua that works for Lua 5.1+";
         longDescription = ''
           Enables parsing a XML string into a Lua Table and