copyleft

/K AA1 P IY0 L EH1 F T/

noun

1
The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
“They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.”
2
A software license that follows this philosophy.
“I have placed my program under copyleft.”

verb

1
To license under a copyleft license.
“Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.”

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