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The copyright notice and copying permissions for a document need to
appear in several places in the various Texinfo output formats.
Therefore, Texinfo provides a command (@copying) to declare
this text once, and another command (@insertcopying) to
insert the text at appropriate points.
This section is about the license of the Texinfo document. If the document is a software manual, the software is typically under a different license—for GNU and many other free software packages, software is usually released under the GNU GPL, and manuals are released under the GNU FDL. It is helpful to state the license of the software of the manual, but giving the complete text of the software license is not necessarily required.
• @copying | Declare the document’s copying permissions. | |
• @insertcopying | Where to insert the permissions. |