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	Copyleft
		The term "copyleft" according to some source came from a message contained in Tiny BASIC, a free distributed version of Basic written by Dr. Wang in the late 1970s.
		The term originated as an amusing backformation from the term 'copyright', and was originally a noun, meaning the copyright license terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) originated by Richard Stallman as part of the Free Software Foundation's work.
		Thus, 'your program is covered by the copyleft'.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/c/co/copyleft.html (1367 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Copyleft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are definitional problems with the term "copyleft" which contribute to controversy over it.
		The term originated as an amusing backformation from the term "copyright", and was originally a noun, meaning the copyright license terms of the GNU General Public License originated by Richard Stallman as part of the Free Software Foundation's work.
		Thus, "your program is covered by the copyleft" is almost considered as a synonym of the program being GPLed (GPL being the de facto standard of all kind of copyleft licenses).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Copyleft (4501 words)

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		People have had a harder time pronouncing "ontolog" than I thought they would, probably because I'm a nerd and I assume everyone in the world knows and loves thinking about ontologies.
		The word "ontolog" is a backformation of the word "ontology", analogous to the way "analog" is related to "analogy".
		You can think of an ontolog as being a unit of, or instance, of ontology.
	www.ontolog.com (745 words)

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