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 Definitions for CopyLeft: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
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copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n. [play on `copyright'] 1. The copyright notice
(`General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free
Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to
all comers (but see also General Public Virus). 2. By extension, any
copyright notice intended to achieve similar aims.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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copyleft
/kop'ee-left/ (A play on "copyright") The copyright
notice and General Public License applying to the works of
the Free Software Foundation, granting reuse and
reproduction rights to everyone.
Typically copyrights take away freedoms; copyleft preserves
them. It is a legal instrument that requires those who pass
on a program to include the rights to use, modify, and
redistribute the code; the code and the freedoms become
legally inseparable.
The copyleft used by the GNU Project combines a regular
copyright notice and the "GNU General Public License" (GPL).
The GPL is a copying license which basically says that you
have the aforementioned freedoms. The license is included in
each GNU source code distribution and manual.
See also General Public Virus.
[Jargon File]
(1995-04-18)
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