copyleft

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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.

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  • Apparently, Paley is also looking for sites to host the movie under her "copyleft" agreement. —  Toon Zone News
  • It's a reciprocal or "copyleft" license in that in order to be allowed the right to redistribute the software (normally forbidden under copyright law) the distributor has to agree to make the source code available to the recipient under exactly the same terms. —  LXer Linux News
  • Such licenses provide the ideal balance of freedom versus limitations, and projects that use them are overwhelmingly more successful than ones that don't (both those with more free "non-copyleft" licenses and those with more restrictive "non-free" licenses). —  LXer Linux News
  • Therefore copyleft is very important to the morale of contributors and to the sustainable interest of the community of developers. —  LXer Linux News
  • 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. —  LXer Linux News
 

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