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    New license-files field. · a7b58b1f
    Duncan Coutts authored
    Based closely on the patches by Mathieu Boespflug <mboes@cs.mcgill.ca>
    
    This field is intended to be used instead of (or in addition to) the
    normal 'license-file' field by packages that have multiple files for
    their license material. This is useful when eg the license is
    supplemented by additional permissions and/or conditions. Notably,
    the LGPL is structured in this way: it amends the GPL with additional
    permissions, therefore one should distribute both the GPL in COPYING
    and the LGPL in COPYING.LESSER.
    
    So we keep both the license-file and license-files fields (rather than
    deprecating one) and packages can use either or a mixture.
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