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COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files

Now that we have a new COPYING file with points to the
Linux license files, replace it with the old content.

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rename COPYING.new => COPYING (100%)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

authored by

Mauro Carvalho Chehab and committed by
Jonathan Corbet
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COPYING
··· 1 + The Linux Kernel is provided under: 1 2 2 - NOTE! 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COPYING.new
··· 1 - The Linux Kernel is provided under: 2 - 3 - SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 - 5 - Being under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, 6 - according with: 7 - 8 - LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 9 - 10 - With an explicit syscall exception, as stated at: 11 - 12 - LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note 13 - 14 - In addition, other licenses may also apply. Please see: 15 - 16 - Documentation/process/license-rules.rst 17 - 18 - for more details.