copyleft

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

copyleft (usually uncountable, plural copylefts)

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.

   The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.

copyleft (third-person singular simple present copylefts, present participle copylefting, simple past and past participle copylefted)

1. (transitive) To license under a copyleft license.

   Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

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Borrowed from English copyleft.

• IPA^(key): /kopileft/ [ko.pi.left̪]
• Rhymes: -ileft, -eft
• Hyphenation: co‧py‧left

copyleft inan

1. copyleft
   • 2011 June 12, Alberto Pradilla, “Heterodoxia kanpin-denden barnean”, in Argia, number 2280:

     Asanbladetan eta komisioetan denetarik hitz egiten da: animalien eskubideetatik copylefteraino.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “copyleft”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Borrowed from English copyleft.

copyleft m (plural copylefts)

1. copyleft

Borrowed from English copyleft.

• IPA^(key): /kopiˈleft/ [ko.piˈleft̪]
• Rhymes: -eft
• Syllabification: co‧py‧left

copyleft m (plural copylefts)

1. copyleft

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.