The GPL Howto and the maintain manual both suggest use of COPYING.LESSER in a project for software licensed under the LGPL, while the GNU Coding Standards states in section 7.3 that it should be in a file called COPYING.LIB. Suggest changing this to COPYING.LESSER in line with the other documents and to reflect the name change from GNU Library GPL to GNU Lesser GPL. (Very small ☺) patch attached.
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Index: standards.texi
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The @file{README} file should also refer to the file which contains the
copying conditions. The GNU GPL, if used, should be in a file called
@file{COPYING}. If the GNU LGPL is used, it should be in a file called
-...@file{copying.lib}.
+...@file{copying.lesser}.
Naturally, all the source files must be in the distribution. It is okay
to include non-source files in the distribution, provided they are
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