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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:01:20 -0400

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    Is COPYING.LIB a file that contains the LGPL license?
    Why name it so weirdly?

It's the convention I set up 25 years ago -- like COPYING, but it's
for libraries.  That was when "LGPL" meant "GNU Library General Public
License".

Perhaps it should be COPYING.LESSER.

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