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+# Copyright information
+
+The translations of manpages are licensed under the
+GNU General Public License version 3, or (at your option)
+any later version. Please see the file LICENSE for
+the complete text of the license.
+
+These translations have been contributed by many different
+people, see the file AUTHORS for a complete list.
+
+In order to create a translated manpage from the english
+original manpage, this package will download a Debian
+package which contains the english original manpage and
+afterwards generate the translation.
+
+Please note that those original manpages are distributed
+under a variety of copyright licenses. Although these
+licenses permit free distribution of those manpages,
+commercial distribution may impose other requirements
+(e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the
+raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).
+
+If you distribute the translated manpages commercially,
+it is your responsibility to figure out your obligations.
+For many manpages, these obligations require you to
+distribute nroff sources with any pre-formatted manpages
+that you provide. Each file that contains nroff source
+for a manpage also contains the author(s) name, email
+address, and copyright notice.