Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] B2 for Gitlab?

[Mike Gerwitz]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 13:57:45 -0700, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> Why is COPYING preferred over LICENSE? As a free software user myself, I
> was searching for what license software had as a default, and it was not
> obvious to me at all that COPYING was something to look at. I'm
> interested in all of the freedoms, and copying is not relevant to all of
> them. As an end user, COPYING is not an obvious file name to me at all.
> What's the justification for preferring that name?

COPYING has always been the file in which the GPL is stored; so it's
more of a "why LICENSE over COPYING?".

I do recognize that LICENSE has become more popular, in large part due
to popular repository hosts.

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