This is the Debian package of Texinfo, the GNU documentation system.

This package was previously maintained by Ian Jackson, Erick
Branderhorst, Galen Hazelwood, and Josip Rodin. Today, it is 
maintained by Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>.

The original source can be found at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/

Upstream maintainer: Karl Berry <karl@cs.umb.edu>.

  All programs Copyright (C) 1987, 1992-2003  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' file.

The file COPYING referred to in the ouput of info --version and in the
man page of info contains the GPLv2 as found in 
`/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. Although neither the output of
info --version nor the man page mentions a specific version of the GPL, the
GPLv2 applies to the whole package.