copyleft

See also: Copyleft

English

Etymology

A 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

Translations

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.

See also

Basque

Etymology

    Borrowed from English copyleft.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kopileft/ [ko.pi.left̪]
    • Rhymes: -ileft, -eft
    • 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 (inan C-stem1)
    indefinite singular plural proximal plural
    absolutive copyleft copylefta copyleftak copyleftok
    ergative copyleftek copyleftak copyleftek copyleftok
    dative copylefti copyleftari copyleftei copyleftoi
    genitive copyleften copyleftaren copyleften copylefton
    comitative copyleftekin copyleftarekin copyleftekin copyleftokin
    causative copyleftengatik copyleftarengatik copyleftengatik copyleftongatik
    benefactive copyleftentzat copyleftarentzat copyleftentzat copyleftontzat
    instrumental copyleftez copyleftaz copyleftez copyleftotaz
    inessive copyleftetan copyleftean copyleftetan copyleftotan
    locative copyleftetako copylefteko copyleftetako copyleftotako
    allative copyleftetara copyleftera copyleftetara copyleftotara
    terminative copyleftetaraino copylefteraino copyleftetaraino copyleftotaraino
    directive copyleftetarantz copylefterantz copyleftetarantz copyleftotarantz
    destinative copyleftetarako copylefterako copyleftetarako copyleftotarako
    ablative copyleftetatik copyleftetik copyleftetatik copyleftotatik
    partitive copyleftik — — —
    prolative copylefttzat — — —

    1. Optionally, case suffixes can be separated from the root with a hyphen.

    Further reading

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

    Portuguese

    Etymology

      Borrowed from English copyleft.

      Pronunciation

      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌkɔ.piˈlɛft͡ʃ/, /ˌkɔ.piˈlɛ.fi.t͡ʃi/

      Noun

      copyleft m (plural copylefts)

      1. copyleft

      Further reading

      Spanish

      Etymology

        Borrowed from English copyleft.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /kopiˈleft/ [ko.piˈleft̪]
        • Rhymes: -eft
        • Syllabification: co‧py‧left

        Noun

        copyleft m (plural copylefts)

        1. copyleft

        Usage notes

        • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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