Preserving the global software heritage

Posted Aug 5, 2016 19:41 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Preserving the global software heritage by zack
Parent article: Preserving the global software heritage

we looked and found thousands of different file names (not even considering the full paths) for the textual version of the GPL3 license, many of which appear to be randomly generated names.

I'm curious as to just what on earth might be choosing to rename a COPYING file to a randomly-generated name. This isn't Subversion text-base/ directories or something, is it?