LICENSE.md replaces the former COPYING. It's an exact copy of the
original at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.md


(MD5 97bd67b5d0309e452b637f76e1c9a23c), retrieved as of Oct 22nd 2016:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:45:28 GMT
Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Aug 2016 17:46:02 GMT
ETag: "45e5-5396ac1a9ca80"
Content-Length: 17893
Content-Language: en

As github (auto)displays a license link and we also point to it
via a badge in the README.md, it's convenient to have Markdown
syntax display this file nicely formatted.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Nortmann <bernhard.nortmann@web.de>