Remove redundant file COPYING

Most of the information was already in README.md. Add the missing hint for Leptonica, too, so the file can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <[email protected]>
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 This package contains an **OCR engine** - `libtesseract` and a **command line program** - `tesseract`.
 Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused
-on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of 
-Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with 
-Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0). 
-It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example 
+on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of
+Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns. Compatibility with
+Tesseract 3 is enabled by using the Legacy OCR Engine mode (--oem 0).
+It also needs traineddata files which support the legacy engine, for example
 those from the tessdata repository.
 
 The lead developer is Ray Smith. The maintainer is Zdenko Podobny.
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ Please report an issue only for a **bug**, not for asking questions.
 
 **NOTE**: This software depends on other packages that may be licensed under different open source licenses.
 
+Tesseract uses [Leptonica library](http://leptonica.com/) which essentially
+uses a [BSD 2-clause license](http://leptonica.com/about-the-license.html).
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 ## Latest Version of README
 
 For the latest online version of the README.md see: