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authorGravatar David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>2014-10-21 08:24:32 +0800
committerGravatar David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>2014-10-24 17:40:35 +0800
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Move LICENSE to COPYING and update text.
Work on #1073. fish is not exclusively distributed under the GPL version 2; the canonical reference is doc_src/license.hdr, so use that as the full description. [skip ci]
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+Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell.
+
+Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Axel Liljencrantz
+
+fish is free software.
+
+Most of fish is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2, and
+you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPL as
+published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+fish also includes software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
+License version 2, the OpenBSD license and the ISC license.
+
+Full licensing information is contained in doc_src/license.hdr.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
+more details.