copyleft

Speech parts

1. copyleft - Noun

2. copyleft - Verb

Meaning

The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.

A software license that follows this philosophy.
I have placed my program under copyleft.
The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.

copyleft (third-person singular simple present copylefts, present participle copylefting, simple past and past participle copylefted)

To license under a copyleft license.
Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

Examples

Centres worldwide are run autonomously, however they all provide copyleft content. Source: Internet

Design Science License (DSL) is a copyleft license for any type of free content such as text, images, music. Source: Internet

He developed a free software definition and the concept of " copyleft ", designed to ensure software freedom for all. Source: Internet

In contrast, Open Law crafts its arguments in public and releases them under a copyleft. Source: Internet

In its strongest form, copyleft mandates that any works derived from copyleft-licensed software must also carry a copyleft license, so the license spreads from work to work like a computer virus might spread from machine to machine. Source: Internet

It was the first "generalized copyleft" license. Source: Internet

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