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@copying
: Declare copying permissionsThe @copying
command should be given very early in the document;
right after the header material (see section Texinfo File Header) is the
recommended location. It conventionally consists of a sentence or two
about what the program is, the legal copyright line, and the copying
permissions. Here is a skeletal example:
@copying This manual is for program (version version), which … Copyright @copyright{} years copyright-owner. @quotation Permission is granted to … @end quotation @end copying |
The @quotation
has no legal significance; it’s there to improve
readability in some contexts.
See section GNU Sample Texts, for the full text to be used in GNU manuals. See section GNU Free Documentation License, for the license itself under which GNU and other free manuals are distributed.
The text of @copying
is output as a comment at the beginning of
Info, HTML, and XML output files. It is not output implicitly in
plain text or TeX; it’s up to you to use @insertcopying
to
emit the copying information. See the next section for details.
In output formats that support it (print and HTML), the
@copyright{}
command generates a ‘c’ inside a circle. In
Info and plain text, it generates ‘(C)’. The copyright notice
itself has the following legally defined sequence:
Copyright © years copyright-owner. |
The word ‘Copyright’ must always be written in English, even if the manual is otherwise in another language. This is due to international law.
The list of years should include all years in which a version was completed (even if it was released in a subsequent year). Ranges are not allowed, each year must be written out individually, separated by commas.
The copyright owner (or owners) is whoever holds legal copyright on the work. In the case of works assigned to the FSF, the owner is ‘Free Software Foundation, Inc.’.
See (maintain)Copyright Notices section ‘Copyright Notices’ in GNU Maintenance Instructions, for additional information.
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