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The act of licensing under a copyleft license

I have placed my program under copyleft.

To license under a copyleft license

Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

(Of a license allowing use of a copyrighted work) Allowing use, distribution, and modification on the condition that any redistributions or modifications also be licensed under the same condition and, in the case of computer software, are accompanied by source code

The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.

A copyleft license
A copyleft is a notice giving the public legal permission to redistribute a program or other work of art Copylefts are used by left-wing programmers to give people equal rights, just as copyrights are used by right-wing programmers to gain power over other people
A copyleft is a notice giving the public legal permission to redistribute a program or other work of art Copylefts are used by leftists to enrich the public just as copyrights are used by rightists to gain power over the public
A play on the term "copyright," copyleft is the essential concept at the heart of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License According to the FSF, "Copyleft says thatanyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it " This is sharp contradistinction to the permissions granted by BSD style licenses, which allow you to do anything you want with a piece of code, as long as you maintain the copyright notices
{i} copyright notice or legal instrument that grants any person the rights for free use or change and reproduce of a product; (Computers) condition stipulated when software is distributed which indicates that users are able to copy the software freely or change the source code and redistribute it to others
Term used for the copyright agreement and license statement created by Richard Stallman for software developed under the GNU project Recipients of software under this license are entitled to receive and use the source code of the software to which the license applies In addition, recipients are permitted to redistribute the licensed software and to make derivative works provided that the source code of the derivative is also made available under similar conditions The current version of "copyleft" is the GNU Public License
Allowing use, distribution, and modification on the condition that any redistributions or modifications also be licensed under the same condition and, in the case of computer software, are accompanied by source code
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