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    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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    released under a permissive license may be referred to as "copycenter". Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and describes the practice of using copyright...
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    thing. The two main categories of open-source licenses are permissive and copyleft. Permissive licenses come from academia. They grant permission to modify...
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    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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    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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    GNU General Public License (category Copyleft software licenses)
    licenses or copyleft that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general...
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  • rights reversed is a phrase that indicates a release of copyright or a copyleft licensing status. It is a pun on the common copyright disclaimer "All rights...
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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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  • negotiate to combine code. Copyleft licenses are commonly deliberately incompatible with proprietary licenses, in order to prevent copyleft software from being...
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