Copyleft

noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

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."

3.verbTo license under a copyleft license.

"Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel."

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