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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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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Free content (section Copyleft)
licenses rely on a copyright holder's power to license their work, as copyleft which also utilizes copyright for such a purpose. The public domain is...
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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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Open-source license (section Copyleft)
licenses. 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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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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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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level of service to the purchaser, often backed by financial penalties. Copyleft is a type of free license that mandates derivative works to be licensed...
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GNU General Public License (category Copyleft software licenses)
licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general...
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