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Copyleft

Noun

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1.NounThe 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.NounA software license that follows this philosophy.
"I have placed my program under copyleft.; The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence."
3.VerbTo license under a copyleft license.
"Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel."
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