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Copyleft
The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
📖 Definitions of "Copyleft"
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."
verb
- 1
To license under a copyleft license.
"Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel."
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