This sort of confusion could have been avoided if they had just said "the source code to this program is now free to distribute under the (MIT|BSD|GPL|etc) license" from the beginning. Nobody knew what exactly the intent of this novel "let this paragraph represent" approach was supposed to be, and now it just sounds like we have a slightly clearer idea.
No need to get cutesy with something as important as your license terms, people.
No need to get cutesy with something as important as your license terms, people.