Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A form of licensing that encourages the distribution of software at no charge for noncommercial uses.
Wiktionary
- n. The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
- n. A software license that follows this philosophy.
- v. To license under a copyleft license.
Etymologies
- Pun on copyright. (Wiktionary)
- After copyright. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Copyleft Foundation, which initiates its course this coming month of October year 2006, issues a formal invitation to participate to all those interested in copyleft and who form a part of the chain of assessment of the arts, culture an science as well as individuals and associative companies.”
“The GPL is called a copyleft license, which is wordplay on copyright.”
“A concept in competition with the idea of copyleft is the "non-commercial" license, which attempts to restrict the use of a work for "commercial" purposes.”
“copyleft" - software licenses that not only allow copying, but require it.”
“It is radical because previous attempts have tried to build on the evident success of the GNU GPL by taking a kind of copyleft approach: using copyright to limit copyright.”
“Do you own the copyright, and if so would you be willing to give a general "copyleft" or other no-royalty license?”
“IP practitioners frequently complain about the academythe "copyleft" as they are found sic of saying.”
“This License is a kind of "copyleft," which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense.”
How To Think Like a Computer Scientist, Learning with Python
“This approach, known as "copyleft", as opposed to copyright, languished in obscurity until the internet made it easier for far-flung groups of developers to collaborate-which led to an explosion of open-source activity.”
“As a musician, and as an entrepreneur making my living selling equipment to studios and musicians, I obviously have a great deal to lose if the putative forces of "copyleft" somehow succeed in preventing music being paid for.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘copyleft’.
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Review
Words to study and become more familiar with.
phatic, tontine, backronym, polyptoton, fissiparous, deus ex machina, orrery, prolly, mad props, snog, oubliette, copyleft and 101 more...
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Xuer's Words
real, xuer, china, shanghai, internet, readwrite, craigslist, google, delicious, flickr, douban, 37signals and 109 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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Recent additions
Relatively new coinages, or adaptations of previously existing words.
firewall, bioterrorism, bling-bling, bluetooth, bobo, game face, microdermabrasion, metrosexual, microarray, sex worker, stained-glass cei..., stalkerazzi and 99 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Oddball Opposites
headweak, uppour, breathful, downbraid, footquarters, happysack, dayjar, handloose, gogap, bookstationary, whitestrap, beforemath and 160 more...
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The (Mis)Communication Station
Various words that deal with communicating, listed here mostly 'cause I wanted them off my default list.
diegesis, sestina, onomatopoeia, meme, infotainment, copyleft, sniglet, engrish, infornography, palaver, entendre, disclosure and 9 more...
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The Intertubes
Yep, I have to separate them now. These are words relating to the internet, computers and related stuff.
meme, copyleft, internet, squee, qwerty, wikiality, zeitgeist, wordie, debian, id10t, snowclones, o rly and 7 more...
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what does that mean?
words or phrases that have me baffled
shout out, giving props, honey trap, back in the day, has legs, ergodic literature, ludologist, deely-boppers, subsequence, punctilios, internet addiction, internet addictio... and 35 more...
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Teen Speak
frenemy, lulz, gobsmacked, BFF, FTW, sperglord, copyleft, beanplate, ish, facepalm, famewhore, starfucker and 6 more...
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edwardhenry's words
ebenezer, stentorian, artesian, hoodie, fine, chiaroscuro, oscillation, macerate, polyamory, adequite, obliterate, pathetic and 41 more...
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Words That Wordie Has Taught Me
New words that I've learned on Wordie.
contronym, callipygian, apostate, nyctophobia, transliteration, copyleft, mudita, inchoate, manualism, ithyphallic, diacritics, nastygram and 26 more...
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dangertoy's list
anythingness of interestingness
Tweets
Looking for tweets for copyleft.
nuxiy I can also see them both now May 15, 2009
seanahan I can see both of them here from a different computer, same Firefox, but using Linux this time. May 15, 2009
vanishedone How about ↄ? May 15, 2009
nuxiy Me neither May 15, 2009
seanahan I can't see it. May 15, 2009
vanishedone Can you see a reversed c here? → Ↄ
I got it from here, but I can't view it on my machine.
There's been some discussion about the possibility of adding the symbol here. May 11, 2009
Prolagus Does the copyleft symbol exist as a font? Is there any right-left equivalent of the upside-down tool whichbe linked to on upside-down? May 11, 2009
seanahan Often used to describe the GPL, the GNU Public License. Jan 8, 2008