copyleft
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noun
- 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.”
- A software license that follows this philosophy.“I have placed my program under copyleft.”
verb
- To license under a copyleft license.“Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.”
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