Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in...
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BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can...
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Free content (section Copyleft)
licenses rely on a copyright holder's power to license their work, as copyleft which also utilizes copyright for such a purpose. The public domain is...
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Open-source license (section Copyleft)
licenses. The two main categories of open-source licenses are permissive and copyleft. Both grant permission to change and distribute software. Typically, they...
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All rights reversed (redirect from Copyleft – all rights reversed.)
rights reversed is a phrase that indicates a release of a publication under copyleft licensing status. It is a pun on the common copyright disclaimer "All rights...
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Free-software license (redirect from Permissive and copyleft licences)
were of the "permissive" kind. In the mid-1980s, the GNU project produced copyleft free-software licenses for each of its software packages. An early such...
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level of service to the purchaser, often backed by financial penalties. Copyleft is a type of free license that mandates derivative works to be licensed...
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GNU Lesser General Public License (category Copyleft)
proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components. However, any...
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restrictions on reuse and therefore has high license compatibility. Unlike copyleft software licenses, the MIT License also permits reuse within proprietary...
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Share-alike (category Copyleft)
work to be released under the same or similar license as the original. Copyleft licenses are free content or free software licenses with a share-alike...
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