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The “reversed c in a full circle” is the copyleft symbol. It is the copyright symbol mirrored. Unlike the copyright symbol, it has no legal meaning.

Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.

Copyleft is a form of licensing and may be used to modify copyrights for works such as computer software, documents, music, and art. In general, copyright law allows an author to prohibit others from reproducing, adapting, or distributing copies of the author's work. In contrast, an author may, through a copyleft licensing scheme, give every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute the work as long as any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same copyleft licensing scheme. A widely used and originating copyleft license is the GNU General Public License. Similar licenses are available through Creative Commons — called Share-alike.

Copyleft may also be characterized as a copyright licensing scheme in which an author surrenders some but not all rights under copyright law. Instead of allowing a work to fall completely into the public domain (where no copyright restrictions are imposed), copyleft allows an author to impose some but not all copyright restrictions on those who want to engage in activities that would otherwise be considered copyright infringement. Under copyleft, copyright infringement may be avoided if the would-be infringer perpetuates the same copyleft scheme. For this reason copyleft licenses are also known as viral or reciprocal licenses.

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Copyleft is a form of licensing and may be used to modify copyrights for works ... an author may, through a copyleft licensing scheme, give every person who ...


What is Copyleft? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Organization supporting software authors who give up their copyright protections to allow the free ... An alternate form of copyleft, the GNU Lesser General ...


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copyleft ( ) n. A form of licensing that encourages the distribution of software at no charge for noncommercial uses ... Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: copyleft ...


Image:Copyleft.svg - Wikimedia Commons
Français : Le symbole Copyleft, un Copyright renversé. Español: Logotipo del símbolo Copyleft, consistente en un un símbolo de ...


Wikitravel:Copyleft - Wikitravel
Plunge forward! Wikitravel:Copyleft. From Wikitravel. Redirect page. Jump to: navigation, search ... Based on work by Peter Fitzgerald, Ricardo, Szabó Dávid, ...


Licenses - GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, GNU FDL, General Public License, Lesser General Public License, Free Documentation ...
Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without ... Copyleft guarantees that every user has freedom. ...


Copyleft - Wikipedia
Copyleft是一種在現有著作權體制下的授權方式,它要求使用者必須要以同等的授權方式回饋社群。 ... 因為Copyleft雖然與常見的著作權模式不同,但並未放棄著作權,它是利用著作權法律來促進創作自由,並未反對著作權的基本體制。 ... 文章介紹什麼是copyleft? 自由和力量,Richard Stalman, ...


Copyleft - Wikitravel Shared
Wikitravel uses a copyleft license for all text, images, and other content on the Web site. ... Copyleft means that every single author, editor, illustrator, ...


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Copyleft also helps programmers who want to contribute improvements to free ... An alternate form of copyleft, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) ...


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The term CopyLeft describes the tight relation of a piece of copyrighted work ... by requiring all users of the CopyLeft software to give back to the community, ...


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Re: Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0

... copies of Original Work or Derivative Works that You distribute or communicate shall be licensed under this Non-Profit Open Software License or as provided in section 17(d); This is a copyleft-like clause. As already discussed elsewhere in this thread, it's not a DFSG-freeness issue, but causes the license to be GPL-incompatible, which is always annoying. [...] 3) Grant of ...

Re: Estadisticas mensuales: marzo

On 10 abr, 04:36, Estadisticas <deabruNOUSEESTECOR...@ono.com> wrote:                                 StatNews Report                                 (Revision: 2.2)           Copyleft GPL (C) 1998-2003 by Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti                       (traducido y modificado por deabru) Grupo....................: es.charla.moteros Fecha del analisis.......: Jue 10...

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StatNews Report (Revision: 2.2) Copyleft GPL (C) 1998-2003 by Davide Giovanni Maria Salvetti (traducido y modificado por deabru) Grupo....................: es.charla.moteros Fecha del analisis.......: Jue 10 Abr 2008 (GMT) 02:41 Inicio del periodo.......: Sab 1 Mar 2008 (GMT) 00:00 Fin ...

Re: VAZNO: OVA GRUPA *NE SLUZI* za testove i probe !

... sluzi iskljucivo za pitanja oko nejasnoca prilikom koristenja news-a (npr. tamo bi mogli pitati "gdje se mogu slati testne poruke" ili "kako se podesavaju hrvatska slova u Outlook Expressu" ili sl.) Cesto postavljana pitanja i pravila (malo zastarjela, ali vecinom aktualna) mozete pronaci na http://newusers.cjb.net/ -- Opinions above are GNU-copylefted.

Re: Clarification about PDF file license

...a slightly modified variant of) the old license used by the FSF for GNU manuals back when the horrible GFDL had not yet been written... It meets the DFSG, as far as I can tell. It's a weak copyleft and I think it is not compatible with the GNU GPL (v2 or v3). This file was produced from TeXinfo sources that are not available in the tarball but can be found in the SVN repository ...

Re: Jaki program pokazuje typ szyfrowania ?

Użytkownik Q popełnił co następuje: mi takie coś na laptopie pokazuje windowsowy programik obsługujący sieć bezprzewodową.... masz viste ? /w golym xp nie ma takiego cuda :( XP Home Edition. Zrobię screena jutro jak nie zapomnę. -- Adrian S. "Dyskietki ? To te plastikowe kwadraciki do flashowania biosów w pecetach ?" copyleft by Krzysztof Halasa

Komp nie wykrywa dysku

... jak się spodziewam partycja sda1). W /proc/partitions nic dodatkowego się nie pojawia. Pojawia się urządzenie /dev/sda ale nic z tym nie można zrobić, cfdisk mówi Fatal error. System i jajko skonfigurowane tak, że pendrive'y śmigają. Co jeszcze można sprawdzić? -- Adrian S. "Dyskietki ? To te plastikowe kwadraciki do flashowania biosów w pecetach ?" copyleft by Krzysztof Halasa

Re: Bug#460591: Falcon P.L. license (ITP:Bug#460591)

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...display.c --- display.c 1 Jul 2005 19:33:35 -0000 1.22 +++ display.c 7 Apr 2008 09:25:03 -0000 @@ -943,7 +943,8 @@ * format_k */ COPYLEFT(p, thisname + 1); - } else if (num 0) { + } else if (num 0 || (thisname[0] == 'Z' && num = 0) ) {...

Re: Filtrowanie spamu - KMail

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