>>> Sorry, I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve. >>> Why are you separating copyright text and license text? I don’t know how to keep the @ifinfo trick (see the attachment) without separating them. Maybe the @ifinfo part should be removed. >>> Can you send me the whole file (beginning of it, anyway)? >>> The diff is hard to read. Attached. >> And yeah, there could be a single macro since the two always go >> together. > Why is a macro needed at all? > (vs. just using text inside @copying). In the document, nearly the same (more on that later) copyright notice is repeated three times. A new contributor would have to adjust each notice, which is error-prone. Now, I said “nearly” because the “Copyright” lines are different, but they should be identical.