copyleft

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Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A software license that follows this philosophy.

   I have placed my program under copyleft.

3. verb To license under a copyleft license.

   Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

Similar words

freedomware free software open source openness source control sourceware freebooting crayon license legacy code bsd license

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license is licenses and licensing