May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:53 AM

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