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As GPL 2.0 applies to the core code link the main licence text to COPYING to keep everything happy. This caused issues for the QEMU project recently as we mirror (two!) copies of u-boot in our project. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée --- COPYING | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 120000 COPYING diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING new file mode 120000 index 00000000000..1ed3ba6a13c --- /dev/null +++ b/COPYING @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Licenses/gpl-2.0.txt \ No newline at end of file -- 2.47.3