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Copyright Page and Permissions
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  By international treaty, the copyright notice for a book should be
either on the title page or on the back of the title page.  The
copyright notice should include the year followed by the name of the
organization or person who owns the copyright.

  When the copyright notice is on the back of the title page, that page
is customarily not numbered.  Therefore, in Texinfo, the information on
the copyright page should be within `@titlepage' and `@end titlepage'
commands.

  Use the `@page' command to cause a page break.  To push the copyright
notice and the other text on the copyright page towards the bottom of
the page, you can write a somewhat mysterious line after the `@page'
command that reads like this:

     @vskip 0pt plus 1filll

This is a TeX command that is not supported by the Info formatting
commands.  The `@vskip' command inserts whitespace.  The `0pt plus
1filll' means to put in zero points of mandatory whitespace, and as
much optional whitespace as needed to push the following text to the
bottom of the page.  Note the use of three `l's in the word `filll';
this is the correct usage in TeX.

  In a printed manual, the `@copyright{}' command generates a `c'
inside a circle.  (In Info, it generates `(C)'.)  The copyright notice
itself has the following legally defined sequence:

     Copyright (C) YEAR COPYRIGHT-OWNER

  It is customary to put information on how to get a manual after the
copyright notice, followed by the copying permissions for the manual.

  Permissions must be given here as well as in the summary segment
within `@ifinfo' and `@end ifinfo' that immediately follows the header
since this text appears only in the printed manual and the `ifinfo'
text appears only in the Info file.

  Note: GNU Free Documentation License, for the
standard text.