Sekirov Dictionary

copyleft

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
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.

verb1

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

forms

copylefted · copylefting · copylefts

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