copyleft

Meanings

Noun

The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
A software license that follows this philosophy.

Verb

To license under a copyleft license.

Origin

Pun on copyright, which refers to using copyright laws for purposes that are in some ways contrary to copyright's original intent.

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