Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in...
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BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can...
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Free content (section Copyleft)
released under a permissive license may be referred to as "copycenter". Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and describes the practice of using copyright...
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Open-source license (section Copyleft)
thing. The two main categories of open-source licenses are permissive and copyleft. Both grant permission to change and distribute software. Typically, they...
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Free-software license (redirect from Permissive and copyleft licences)
were of the "permissive" kind. In the mid-1980s, the GNU project produced copyleft free-software licenses for each of its software packages. An early such...
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All rights reversed (redirect from Copyleft – all rights reversed.)
rights reversed is a phrase that indicates a release of a publication under copyleft licensing status. It is a pun on the common copyright disclaimer "All rights...
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GNU Lesser General Public License (category Copyleft)
proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components. However, any...
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generally find the same set of software to be acceptable, but sometimes see copyleft as restrictive. They generally advocate permissive free software licenses...
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GNU General Public License (category Copyleft software licenses)
licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general...
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restrictions on reuse and therefore has high license compatibility. Unlike copyleft software licenses, the MIT License also permits reuse within proprietary...
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negotiate to combine code. Copyleft licenses are commonly deliberately incompatible with proprietary licenses, in order to prevent copyleft software from being...
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Share-alike (category Copyleft)
work to be released under the same or similar license as the original. Copyleft licenses are free content or free software licenses with a share-alike...
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on the use and distribution of covered software. This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have share-alike requirements. The original BSD license...
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proprietary. Some copyleft licenses block other means of turning software proprietary. Copyleft is a general concept. Copylefting an actual program requires...
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GNU Free Documentation License (category Copyleft)
The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF)...
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GNU Affero General Public License (category Copyleft software licenses)
The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the...
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GNU Project (category Copyleft media)
"weak" copyleft. "Weak" copyleft programs typically allow distributors to link them together with non-free programs, while "strong" copyleft strictly...
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Knowledge commons (section Copyleft)
abilities and willingness". Copyleft licenses are institutions which support a knowledge commons of executable software. Copyleft licenses grant licensees...
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copyright notice and disclaimer. The Apache License is permissive; unlike copyleft licenses, it does not require a derivative work of the software, or modifications...
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based on the principle of copyleft, a kind of reciprocity: any work derived from a copyleft piece of software must also be copyleft itself. The most common...
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Intellectual property Authors' rights Copyleft Copyright Database right Farmers' rights Geographical indication Indigenous intellectual property Industrial...
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financial profit is expected to be much lower in a business model utilising copyleft works only than in a business using proprietary works.[opinion][better source needed]...
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Day. Public records Center for the Study of the Public Domain Copyfraud Copyleft Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States...
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Li-Chen Wang stated ‘(ↄ) COPYLEFT ALL WRONGS RESERVED’. In 1984–5 programmer Don Hopkins sent Richard Stallman a letter labeled "Copyleft—all rights reversed"...
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permissive copyleft) Creative Commons Attribution Copyleft & patentleft licenses GNU GPL, LGPL (weaker copyleft), AGPL (stronger copyleft) Creative Commons...
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share-alike (copyleft Licenses). An example of a copyleft free software license is the often used GNU General Public License (GPL), also the first copyleft license...
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Patentleft (redirect from Copyleft-style patent license)
adopters license related improvements they develop under the same terms. Copyleft-style licensors seek "continuous growth of a universally accessible technology...
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circle), and is used to designate copyright in a sound recording. The copyleft symbol 🄯 is a backwards capital letter C in a circle (copyright symbol...
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and Cromemco. He made early use of the word copyleft, in Palo Alto Tiny BASIC's distribution notice "@COPYLEFT ALL WRONGS RESERVED" in June 1976. The Homebrew...
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The Server Side Public License (SSPL) is a source-available copyleft software license introduced by MongoDB Inc. in 2018. It includes most of the text...
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