The stories behind Label on the Code

• The Sound of 'Label on the Code' — A cold, clipped garage beat on one take; warmer horns and a funkier pocket on the other.
• Label on the Code: The Nutrition Label for a Device's Software — The song behind the machine-readable ingredient list manufacturers now have to hand over for the software inside a device.

Lyrics

Read the label, read the code

Read the label, read the code

That's, that's the Read the label, read the code

Read the label, read the code

That's the way it goes

Every box has got a list of what's inside it

That's the norm Now the code's gotta have one too

Machine, readable form Every open source piece

Every borrowed line Gotta name it, gotta claim it

On the record, plain and fine

Label on the box

Label on a coat

Read the whole receipt before it's loaded

Label on a box

Label on a coat nothing hidden, nothing coded

Borrow the library, build it in the back, now it's on the list, no way to take it back

Minimum elements, every module counted, right

Transparency's the one thing that's back in the light

Label on a box, label on a code, read the whole receipt before

it's loaded

Label on a box, label on a code, nothing hidden,

nothing coded What's in the box, what's in the box,

what's in the box

Code, code, code, code, code

Same question, different role

Label on a book, label on a code

Read the whole receipt before it's loaded

Label on a book, label on a code

Nothing hidden, nothing coded

Label Read the label

Read the label Read the lies

Read the label Read the lies I