Contradictory license and copying files

[alichnewsky]

COPYING file is GNU GPL
LICENSE file is BSD like.
the documentation overall is kind of hinting that the LICENSE file is the one for further contributions

I am not the only one confused as Github classifies the project as Unknown, GPL-2.0 licenses found

can you please clarify ?

[FrancescAlted]

Yes, the intent was to allow projects to use the library under the license they prefer. We are using the same approach than https://github.com/facebook/zstd. See some discussion about this here: facebook/zstd#1181

[alichnewsky]

Thanks for pointing that out so promptly. I indeed could have read the four files of implementation.
I don't mind closing the issue, unless you intend to change the README or the documentation, and want it to stay opened.