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Meaning of "copyleft" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COPYLEFT

copyleft  [ˈkɒpɪˌlɛft] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COPYLEFT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Copyleft is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COPYLEFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Copyleft

Copyleft is the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work. In other words, copyleft is a general method for making a creative work as freely available to be modified, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the creative work to be free as well. Copyleft is a form of and can be used to maintain copyright conditions for works such as computer software, documents, and art. In general, copyright law is used by an author to prohibit recipients from reproducing, adapting, or distributing copies of the work. In contrast, under copyleft, an author may give every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute it and require that any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same licensing agreement. Copyleft licenses require that information necessary for reproducing and modifying the work must be made available to recipients of the executable. The source code files will usually contain a copy of the license terms and acknowledge the author.

Definition of copyleft in the English dictionary

The definition of copyleft in the dictionary is a form of licensing that imposes fewer restrictions on the use of a work than copyright. Typically, copyleft grants permission for a work to be used free of charge, to be distributed freely and to be modified in any way, under the condition that any works derived from the original work are released according to the same rules.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COPYLEFT


aleft
əˈlɛft
antileft
ˌæntɪˈlɛft
antitheft
ˌæntɪˈθɛft
bereft
bɪˈrɛft
cleft
klɛft
deft
dɛft
eft
ɛft
far-left
ˌfɑːˈlɛft
heft
hɛft
klepht
klɛft
left
lɛft
outside-left
ˌaʊtsaɪdˈlɛft
reft
rɛft
theft
θɛft
ultra-left
ˌʌltrəˈlɛft
unbereft
ˌʌnbɪˈrɛft
weft
wɛft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COPYLEFT

copycat
copyfight
copygirl
copygraph
copyhold
copyholder
copying
copying ink
copyism
copyist
copyread
copyreader
copyright
copyright deposit library
copyright social conflict
copyrightable
copyrighter
copytaker
copywriter
copywriting

WORDS THAT END LIKE COPYLEFT

eyes left
far left
hard left
hard-left
identity theft
infeft
inside-left
loony left
New Left
stage left
third party, fire and theft
to the left
uncleft

Synonyms and antonyms of copyleft in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «copyleft» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COPYLEFT

Find out the translation of copyleft to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of copyleft from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «copyleft» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

copyleft的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

copyleft
570 millions of speakers

English

copyleft
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

copyleft
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحقوق المتروكة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

авторское лево
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

copyleft
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কপিলেফট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

copyleft
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Copyleft
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Copyleft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コピーレフト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

카피 레프트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Copyleft
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

copyleft
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோப்ய்லேபிட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉपीलॅब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

copyleft
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

copyleft
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

copyleft
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

авторське ліво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

copyleft
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

copyleft
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Copyleft
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

copyleft
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

copyleft
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of copyleft

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COPYLEFT»

The term «copyleft» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.595 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COPYLEFT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «copyleft» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «copyleft» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about copyleft

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COPYLEFT»

Discover the use of copyleft in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to copyleft and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Copy, rip, burn: the politics of copyleft and open source
A readable guide to the revolutionary potential of open source and copyleft
David M. Berry, 2008
2
The Copyleft Heart:
The. Copyleft. Heart. Clifford fell in love while walking his owner's dogs in the park. His sensors caught the sun reflecting off her chromeplatedskull, drawing his attention. She was a newer DF3000 series gynoid holding the leash of a ...
Ryan M. Williams, 2013
3
Open Source Software Law
Copyleft appears to deny these users the opportunity to distribute a transformative work under terms entirely distinct from the open source license. This ironic twist of fate of copyleft, however, is highly unlikely under current software ...
Rod Dixon, 2004
4
OpenSolaris Bible
Based on this criterion, there are three categories of open source licenses: □ Strong copyleft licenses require that any derived code stay under the original license. Therefore, if a developer adds some code to a file under a copyleft license, ...
Nicholas A. Solter, Jerry Jelinek, David Miner, 2011
5
eCulture: Cultural Content in the Digital Age
Let us start by examining copyleft and the beliefs of its sponsors. Copyleft, they say, is a zone of free creativity which anyone can access for their own personal benefit and/or the benefit of the community. The copyleft phenomenon has recently ...
Alfredo M. Ronchi, 2009
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Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. ...
Copyleft? Copyleft is a general method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well. The simplest way to make a program free is to put it in the public domain,  ...
Richard Stallman, Joshua Gay, 2002
7
Welcome to the 'free' World: A Free Software Initiative
"Weak copyleft" refers to licenses where not all derived works inherit the copyleft license; whether a derived work inherits or not often depends on the manner in which it was derived. "Weak copyleft" licenses are generally used for the creation  ...
‎2011
8
Firms in Open Source Software Development: Managing ...
The term copyleft is a wordplay derived from copyright, which implies the “right to copy”, and moreover to modify and distribute IP. In contrast, copyleft licenses do not secure rights to IP by the principle of exclusion but by ensuring that each ...
Mario Schaarschmidt, 2012
9
In Silico Toxicology: Principles and Applications
Copyleft is the term created in the GNU General Public Licence to allow the freedom of copying, redistributing and modifying the free software in the copyrights world. The licences using copyleft method are called 'copyleft licences' . Designed ...
Mark T. D. Cronin, Judith C. Madden, 2010
10
Selling Rights
The Copyleft movement encompasses a group of licences which can be applied to software, documents, music and art. Usinga reversed version of the familiar copyright symbol, Copyleft supportsthe philosophy that anyone who receivesa ...
Lynette Owen, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COPYLEFT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term copyleft is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rev. Sharpton added to activists wanting Robert E. Lee School …
... 47 Views | Leave a response. By David Shankbone (David Shankbone) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jul 15»
2
Former Laker honored in awards to Canadians in entertainment
... (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Former Los Angeles ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jul 15»
3
CSUN staff threatened by loitering men outside classroom
Photo by Cbl62 [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jul 15»
4
Parents sue CSUN frat, CSU over son's hazing death
Photo by Cbl62 [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jul 15»
5
UC professors honored with Blavatnik Young Scientists award
... 2015 in OC | 66 Views | Leave a response. Photo by mikejuinwind123 [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0 ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jun 15»
6
Cal State Northridge looking for upskirting suspect
Photo by Cbl62 [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jun 15»
7
Summerfest officially opens after Rolling Stones kickoff show
... Dori (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 us (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en)], ... «WHBL Sheboygan, Jun 15»
8
Why Shuttleworth lost R250million exchange control fight
By Nitot (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via ... «BizNews, Jun 15»
9
Former Univ. of Georgia's President Michael F. Adams named …
... Canyon entrance sign, in Malibu, CA. ​English Wikipedia user Wolffystyle [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ... «MyNewsLA.com, Jun 15»
10
Flannery's Peacocks: “King of the Birds” Run Amok
By Jebulon (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via ... «Patheos, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Copyleft [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/copyleft>. Apr 2024 ».
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