This is a side effect of the common practice of not including COPYING, but rather documenting things in e.g. /usr/share/doc/gpredict/copyright. In the case of GPLv2, a common file is shipped (/usr/share/common- licenses/GPL-2) to save the space of including a separate copy of the license for *every* package under this license (as this is a fairly large number). I believe the upstream behaviour is absolutely correct, and does not need modification. I believe that since COPYING is not shipped, it needs a distribution-level patch to have the menu item open /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 to show the license.
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