GPL is more than copying conditions

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear GNU Coding Standards maintainers,

This issue was recently brought up by Juan Julián Merelo Guervós in the 
"Maneage" project [1] that I am maintaining (see [2]).

In Maneage, following the GNU Coding Standards and the "How to use GNU 
Licenses" guide [3], we have a 'COPYING' file for the full text of the 
GNU GPL v3+. In [2] Juan raised the following point:

"A license is much more than copying rights, and the usual best practice 
is to call it that way [LICENSE]"

Therefore, his pull request has changed the file name from 'COPYING' to 
'LICENSE' to be a more clear and unambiguous name.

I wanted to consult you about this: why not recommend to use the less 
ambiguous 'LICENSE' (as well as 'COPYING' for historical reasons)?

Thank you very much,
Mohammad

[1] https://maneage.org
[2] 
https://gitlab.com/maneage/project/-/merge_requests/5/diffs?commit_id=c0e85530d35ba
[3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html