Re: gendocs.sh: license statement

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>               see the files named COPYING.
>
> It is intentional, not just a typo, although I agree that it is weird.
> It originated with rms, I believe (although I'm not sure, it's been many
> years).  I've thought about it several times but always decided not to
> bring it up.  The reason is that there is also COPYING.LIB, and it's
> inconvenient for the plural to depend on whether LGPL code is involved.
>
> It's also not exactly incorrect, since there are dozens of files named
> COPYING, after all (all the same), in various places throughout any
> system and on the net.
>
> Just one of those imperfect things.

Ok, thanks for explaining.