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Copyleft

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

📖 Definitions of "Copyleft"

noun
  1. 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. 2

    A software license that follows this philosophy.

    "I have placed my program under copyleft."

verb
  1. 1

    To license under a copyleft license.

    "Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel."

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