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3.3 Document Permissions
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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.