Re: GPL is more than copying conditions

[Bruno Haible]

Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote:
> 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]"

There are many software licenses. Some for Free Software, some for
proprietary software (e.g. [1]). All of them can be stored in a file named
"LICENSE".

What sets the Free Software licenses apart from the rest, is that they
allow copying (and much more — but copying is the first freedom).

When we call the file 'COPYING', we are emphasizing that our software is
Free Software. It's worth doing that, no?

Bruno

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/