copyleft

noun 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

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

A software license that follows this philosophy.

I have placed my program under copyleft.

The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.

verb

1

To license under a copyleft license.

Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

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