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Copyleft

Updated: 06/22/2024 by Computer Hope
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A Copyright that preserves rights rather than removing them. Copyleft is a GPL (GNU General Public License) and the FSF (Free Software Foundation) guiding principle. It states that others may copy, modify, and distribute an author's work as long as the same rights are preserved on the modified work.

Attribution, Business terms, Copyright, Creative Commons, Free software, GNU, License, Open source, Public domain

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