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bug#18716: 24.3; dired-omit-extensions's default value omits COPYING.LIB


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: bug#18716: 24.3; dired-omit-extensions's default value omits COPYING.LIB
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:09:49 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

> Perhaps it should be COPYING.LESSER.

Why?  If your software uses the LGPL, surely the file that holds the
copying rules should be called "COPYING" or "LICENSE" but not some name
with a funny ".LESSER" extension (which luckily corresponds to no known
format yet).  IF you want a different name depending on which license is
in use, it seems that "GPL-LICENSE" and "LGPL-LICENSE" would be better
choices.  Of course, I'd also argue in favor of a proper extension
(e.g. ".txt") and against the use of allcaps.


        Stefan





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