cordlandwehr added a comment.

  In D27245#614915 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D27245#614915>, @kossebau wrote:
  
  > What about the `COPYING.LIB` file (containing LGLP 2.1 text) in the root 
directory? Could that not be removed given the new copy 
`LICENSES/LGPL-2.1-only.txt`?
  >  Or are both copies required? If so, why? Similar question also for any 
other repo.
  
  
  I agree, this file is obsolete. Yet, I did not touch it in any of the pull 
requests for the following reasons:
  
  - Several of the COPYING.LIB files are stating the wrong license revision, 
since we have frameworks that are only licensed LGPL-2.0 (as a common 
denominator)
  - This COPYING file is (in my perception) also understood as the outbound 
license of the whole library/application. Yet, this is a topic I only want to 
approach in a second step after clarifying the used licenses. The whole 
statement of the outbound license of a library is actually not defined yet 
AFAIS.
  - I just created a ticket for REUSE 
(https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-docs/issues/56) and asking for clarification, 
mostly because the GPL HowTo suggests to adding this file 
(https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html).
  
  I will created another work item on the KF6 board for tracking the COPYING 
file handling, such that this does not block the progress for the SPDX 
identifier introduction.

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