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<span id="Texinfo-Copying-Conditions"></span><h2 class="unnumbered">Texinfo Copying Conditions</h2>
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<p>GNU Texinfo is <em>free software</em>; this means that everyone is free
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What is not allowed is to try to prevent others from further sharing
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