copyleft

See also: Copyleft

English

Etymology

Pun on copyright, which refers to using copyright laws for purposes that are in some ways contrary to copyright's original intent.

Noun

copyleft (usually uncountable, plural copylefts)

1. The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.

   They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.

2. A software license that follows this philosophy.

   I have placed my program under copyleft.

   The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.

Derived terms

• copyleftist
• copyleft symbol
• strong copyleft
• weak copyleft

 

Translations

philosophy

• French: gauche d’auteur f, copyleft (fr) m
• German: Copyleft (de)
• Russian: копилефт (kopileft), (rare) авторское ле́во (avtorskoje lévo)
• Vietnamese: bản quyền ngược

See also

• 🄯

Verb

copyleft (third-person singular simple present copylefts, present participle copylefting, simple past and past participle copylefted)

1. (transitive) To license under a copyleft license.

   Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from English copyleft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kopileft/ [ko.pi.left̪]
• Rhymes: -ileft
• Hyphenation: co‧py‧left

Noun

copyleft inan

1. copyleft
   • 2011 June 12, Alberto Pradilla, “Heterodoxia kanpin-denden barnean”, in Argia, number 2280:

     Asanbladetan eta komisioetan denetarik hitz egiten da: animalien eskubideetatik copylefteraino.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of copyleft (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	copyleft	copyleft-a	copyleft-ak
ergative	copyleft-ek	copyleft-ak	copyleft-ek
dative	copyleft-i	copyleft-ari	copyleft-ei
genitive	copyleft-en	copyleft-aren	copyleft-en
comitative	copyleft-ekin	copyleft-arekin	copyleft-ekin
causative	copyleft-engatik	copyleft-arengatik	copyleft-engatik
benefactive	copyleft-entzat	copyleft-arentzat	copyleft-entzat
instrumental	copyleft-ez	copyleft-az	copyleft-ez
inessive	copyleft-etan	copyleft-ean	copyleft-etan
locative	copyleft-etako	copyleft-eko	copyleft-etako
allative	copyleft-etara	copyleft-era	copyleft-etara
terminative	copyleft-etaraino	copyleft-eraino	copyleft-etaraino
directive	copyleft-etarantz	copyleft-erantz	copyleft-etarantz
destinative	copyleft-etarako	copyleft-erako	copyleft-etarako
ablative	copyleft-etatik	copyleft-etik	copyleft-etatik
partitive	copyleft-ik	—	—
prolative	copyleft-tzat	—	—

Further reading

• “copyleft”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia