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It conventionally consists of a sentence or two about what the program is, identification of the documentation itself, the legal copyright line, and the copying permissions. Here is a skeletal example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@copying This manual is for <var>program</var> (version <var>version</var>, updated <var>date</var>), which … Copyright @copyright{} <var>years</var> <var>copyright-owner</var>. @quotation Permission is granted to … @end quotation @end copying </pre></div> <p>The <code>@quotation</code> has no legal significance; it’s there to improve readability in some contexts. </p> <p>The text of <code>@copying</code> is output as a comment at the beginning of Info, HTML, XML, and DocBook output files. It is <em>not</em> output implicitly in plain text or TeX; it’s up to you to use <code>@insertcopying</code> to emit the copying information. See the next section for details. </p> <span id="index-copyright"></span> <p>The <code>@copyright{}</code> command generates a ‘<samp>c</samp>’ inside a circle when the output format supports this glyph (print and HTML always do, for instance). When the glyph is not supported in the output, it generates the three-character sequence ‘<samp>(C)</samp>’. </p> <p>The copyright notice itself has the following legally-prescribed form: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">Copyright © <var>years</var> <var>copyright-owner</var>. </pre></div> <span id="index-Copyright-word_002c-always-in-English"></span> <p>The word ‘Copyright’ must always be written in English, even if the document is otherwise written in another language. This is due to international law. </p> <span id="index-Years_002c-in-copyright-line"></span> <p>The list of years should include all years in which a version was completed (even if it was released in a subsequent year). It is simplest for each year to be written out individually and in full, separated by commas. </p> <span id="index-Copyright-holder-for-FSF-works"></span> <span id="index-Holder-of-copyright-for-FSF-works"></span> <span id="index-Owner-of-copyright-for-FSF-works"></span> <p>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.’. </p> <p>The copyright ‘line’ may actually be split across multiple lines, both in the source document and in the output. This often happens for documents with a long history, having many different years of publication. If you do use several lines, do not indent any of them (or anything else in the <code>@copying</code> block) in the source file. </p> <p>See <a data-manual="maintain" href="../maintain/Copyright-Notices.html#Copyright-Notices">Copyright Notices</a> in <cite>GNU Maintainer Information</cite>, for additional information. See <a href="GNU-Sample-Texts.html">GNU Sample Texts</a>, for the full text to be used in GNU manuals. See <a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html">GNU Free Documentation License</a>, for the license itself under which GNU and other free manuals are distributed. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040insertcopying.html"><code>@insertcopying</code>: Include Permissions Text</a>, Up: <a href="Document-Permissions.html">Document Permissions</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>