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Meaning of copyleft

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copyleft

noun

Definitions

  1. The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.

    Example: They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.

  2. A software license that follows this philosophy.

    Example: I have placed my program under copyleft.

verb

Definitions

  1. To license under a copyleft license.

    Example: Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.