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	Copyleft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The copylefted code is assumed to be of significant benefit to the person adapting it, as evidenced by their desire to use it, and supporters of the GPL argue that it would be wrong to modify that software and then prevent others from using the modified version under the original license.
		Copyleft also inspired the arts (especially where traditional notions of intellectual property are experienced as hampering creativity and/or creative collaboration and/or easy distribution of art creations), with movements like the Libre Society and open-source record labels emerging.
		Copyleft enables volunteer programmers and organizations to feel involved and contribute to software and feel confident any future derivatives will remain accessible to them, and that their contributions are part of a larger goal, like developing the kernel of an OS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copyleft (3329 words)

	Copyleft - Wikipedia
		Copyleft kan beskrives som en rettslig konstruksjon der lisenstaker til et datamaskinprogram gjennom en lisens for fri programvare, gis tilgang programmets kildekode, og tillatelse til å bruke, bearbeide og tilgjengeliggjøre denne for allmennheten.
		Dette skiller de akademiske lisensene fra copyleft-lisensene, som rettslig sett oppstiller begrensninger i forhold til hvilke vilkår programmet kan gjøres tilgjengelig under og i hvilken form programmet kan gjøres tilgjengelig.
		Copyleft er imidlertid ikke forbeholdt innbitte motstandere av proprietær programvare.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copyleft (779 words)

	What is Copyleft? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.
		Copyleft says that anyone who redistributes the software, with or without changes, must pass along the freedom to further copy and change it.
		Copyleft is a general concept; there are many ways to fill in the details.
	www.gnu.org /copyleft/copyleft.html (948 words)

	Copyleft - Wikipedia
		Copyleft er en betegnelse for en række fri software- og open source-licenser for brug af ophavsretsbeskyttede værker som er karakteriseret ved et krav om at værker som er afledt af et andet værk med en sådan licens, udgives under samme licens hvis de frigives.
		Det første legale copyleft tilskrives Richard Stallman i forbindelse med hans GPL: GNU General Public License.
		Copyleft startede som noget, der kunne ligne en spøg og skæmt-seance, herunder det omvendte copyright-symbol (se figur).
	da.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copyleft (521 words)

	on the misuse of copyLEFT
		Although copyleft is frequently described as a derivation of the General Public License (a license which makes it possible to copy, distribute, and modify free and open source software) it is important to see it in its proper historical context.
		Copyleft is actually a variation of the older practice of “anticopyright” which became popular during the 1960s.
		Copyleft attempted to fix this problem by promoting the free copying and distribution (and derivative use) of works ONLY if it is for non-commercial purposes, in other words, only if there is no economic exploitation.
	romania.indymedia.org /ro/2004/07/282.shtml (1390 words)

	:: Schnews :: SchNEWS OF THE WORLD
		Copyleft started life with the "open source" computer movement which was begun by Richard "Math-You" Stallman in 1984.
		The Copyleft agreement became the written constitution of many hackers, a symbol of idealistic and technical achievement and unshakable integrity.
		And for just such a purpose I have thrown together three simple arcs to form a stencillable Copyleft sign, which is, naturally, copylefted and there for the use of anyone who may need it.
	www.schnews.org.uk /sotw/copyleft-hackers.htm (1105 words)

	Copyleft - Wikipédia
		Le C « inversé » est le symbole du copyleft, il n'est actuellement pas reconnu comme symbole légal.
		Le copyleft a été inventé par Don Hopkins et popularisé par Richard Stallman de la Free Software Foundation en 1984.
		Toutefois Le fondement juridique du copyleft est le copyright (ou le droit d'auteur, selon la juridiction où il est exprimé) puisque le contrat d'utilisation prend la forme d'une licence, dite libre, ayant une valeur légale.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/copyleft (331 words)

	Working Without Copyleft
		It is important to understand that we are not arguing against copyleft per se; that we acknowledge the role of copyleft as a catalyst, and that we believe that there continues to be a place for copyleft.
		Instead we are arguing that copyleft should not be the default choice when open source projects select a license; there are many different reasons for contributing to open source software, and that these reasons should be respected to the largest extend possible.
		However, the use of copyleft does not guarantee contributions to your project either, as the commercial corporations may decide not to use your project because the scope of the copyleft is too extensive (quodque pro quo).
	daniel.haxx.se /transition.html (2467 words)

	Wikinfo \| Copyleft
		Copyleft is one of the key features in free software/open source licences, and is the licenses' legal framework to ensure that derivatives of the licensed work stay free/open.
		The view that copyleft licenses are viral is mainly supported by Microsoft.
		This is not true since the GPL (and all other copyleft licenses) are licenses and not contracts.
	wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=copyleft (905 words)

	Copyleft
		To return to Copyleft for software, note that the GPL covers only copying, distributing, and modifying--everything else is outside the limits of the license.
		And the Copyleft model of product distribution and support is about to be given a very public test by Netscape, which is making the source code of its browser freely available and modifiable, inspired by the success of Linux and by the Eric S. Raymond paper, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
		Copyleft proponents tell us that if we follow their logic, we will one day be able to look on the Internet and find any sort of software that we want, for free and continually updated by the coding community around the world.
	www.stromian.com /copyleft.htm (5891 words)

	COPYLEFT: A revolution in software licencing which brings you GNU/Linux!
		Copyleft is a form of licensing by which the copyright owner may waive their rights and allow other people to share and make further amendments to the work.
		The idea behind Copyleft is to ensure that an individual cannot take advantage of being able to modify a free software program and then sell the resulting modified program as a new work.
		Copyleft licensing evolved from the open source movement which is based on the idea that by making source code widely available and freely modifiable, higher quality software is developed, bugs are fixed more quickly and the resulting product is relatively inexpensive as compared with some commercially available software.
	www.computerlaw.com.au /copyleft.html (687 words)

	Copyleft - Wikipedia
		Copyleft ist ein Schutzverfahren in bestimmten Lizenzen freier Software beziehungsweise freier Inhalte, welches einen bestimmten Aspekt des Copyrights (beziehungsweise Urheberrechts) in sein Gegenteil zu verkehren versucht; daher auch der Name.
		Das Copyleft erzwingt die Freiheit von Weiterbearbeitungen und Fortentwicklungen eines freien Ur-Werkes, um dadurch die unfreie Vereinnahmung freier Werke zu verhindern:
		Eine frühe aber vermutlich nicht rechtlich anerkannte Version der Copyleft ist die „All Rites Reversed“ (Alle Riten verdreht) welche sich meist in diskordischen Schriften wiederfindet.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copyleft (575 words)

	Wired News: In Defense of Copyleft
		But during a legal seminar Tuesday in Dublin on "Copyleft and Open Source Software: History, Applications and Legal Issues," Free Software Foundation founder and principle GNU developer Richard Stallman argued that the concept of copyright is inappropriate to the digital age and restricts freedom and innovation.
		Therefore, copyleft is not "the end of copyright as we know it," as some critics have argued, he said.
		Copyleft, free software and open source software all pose major challenges to the concept of copyright and could threaten the established software houses such as Microsoft, Lambert said.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,41679,00.html (1079 words)

	COPYLEFT DEFINITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The concept of copyleft is to put a program into the public domain and choose not to enforce any copyright on the program.
		Copyleft is a type of intellectual property protection.
		Those who use and distribute a software program that is protected by copyleft have the right to use, modify and redistribute the code and must give others that same right upon redistribution.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/almstrum/cs370/ctao/research/copyleft.htm (172 words)

	Artlibre.org: Free Art License
		You will have the choice of accepting the provisions contained in the version under which the copy was communicated to you, or alternatively, to use the provisions of one of the subsequent versions.
		Copyleft: this work of art is free, you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art license.
		This license has a history: it was born at the meeting " Copyleft Attitude " which took place at "Accès Local" and "Public" in Paris at the beginning of the year 2000.
	www.artlibre.org /licence.php/lalgb.html (1621 words)

	Afdrukken: 'Copyleft is een maatschappelijk relevant begrip geworden' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		De term copyleft is afkomstig van een briefwisseling tussen Richard Stallman, oprichter van de Free Software Foundation en Don Hopkins en is in de loop der jaren een verzamelnaam geworden voor de vele vrije licenties (GNU Public License, BSD License, EFF Open Audio Licensedie etc.) die op dit moment bestaan.
		Wat het voordeel van copyleft is? Cybrarian* legt het uit in onderstaande bijdrage: 'Copyleft is door een aantal technische evoluties een maatschappelijk relevant begrip geworden'.
		Doordat de broncode 'copyleft' was, en mee verspreid werd, kregen ze niet alleen meldingen van fouten, maar ook suggesties om die te verbeteren.
	www.breekpunt.nl /print.asp?id=a947 (865 words)

	Meatball Wiki: CopyLeft
		In effect, the copyleft license is intended to create a gold mine of useful tools but only let in those of the view that source code should be public.
		Furthermore, the licensees of the proprietary version do not possess a copylefted work so they may not possess similar rights; however, if the copylefted work is made public, the licensees of the proprietary version may also switch to the copylefted version (if they can get it).
		The claim was that the copyleft branch stalls waiting for changes in the proprietary branch, which is often the case with lagged licenses, and the entire intent.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?CopyLeft (4287 words)

	Free Pint Newsletter 121 - Copyleft, Redundancy and e-Information
		Copyleft, Open Source & Collaboration ------------------------------------- As content professionals we are all familiar with copyright, which gives the author of an original piece of creative work the right to control copying of that work for their lifetime, and up to 50 years after their death.
		"Copyleft uses copyright law, but flips it over to serve the opposite of its usual purpose: instead of a means of privatizing software, it becomes a means of keeping software free.
		The central idea of copyleft is that we give everyone permission to run the program, copy the program, modify the program, and distribute modified versions--but not permission to add restrictions of their own." We are entering the era of self publishing that allows the creator of a work to distribute directly to the end consumer.
	www.freepint.com /issues/190902.htm (5043 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- Working Without Copyleft
		We acknowledge the role of copyleft as a catalyst, and we believe there continues to be a place for it.
		We are are arguing that copyleft should not be the default choice when developers of open-source projects select a license.
		This copyleft license with a file-based scope was much more in alignment with our perception of freedom, because it allowed more fine-grained distinction between "my work" and "your work".
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/policy/2001/12/12/transition.html (1408 words)

	Copyleft o la liberación de la creatividad colectiva.
		El copyleft pretende situar al usuario en el centro de la cultura y dar rienda suelta a la creatividad colectiva de la sociedad.
		Ante esta situación el movimiento del copyleft, una amalgama heterogénea que defiende la flexibilización de las leyes de propiedad intelectual, ha lanzado una alternativa a esta progresiva apropiación de la cultura.
		Hay licencias de tipo copyleft para todos los gustos, unas más permisivas que otras, pero todas ellas permiten que las creaciones se copien y se distribuyan libremente y obligan normalmente a mantener la atribución al autor.
	www.hispamp3.com /noticias/noticia.php?noticia=20041210093806 (1852 words)

	copyleft - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		copyleft /kop'ee-left/ (A play on "copyright") The copyright notice and General Public License applying to the works of the Free Software Foundation, granting reuse and reproduction rights to everyone.
		It is a legal instrument that requires those who pass on a program to include the rights to use, modify, and redistribute the code; the code and the freedoms become legally inseparable.
		The copyleft used by the GNU Project combines a regular copyright notice and the "GNU General Public License" (GPL).
	dict.die.net /copyleft (164 words)

	FSF - Licenses
		As a result, it is not a strong copyleft, and it is compatible with the GNU GPL.
		This is a free software license which is not a strong copyleft; unlike the X11 license, it has some complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL.
		This is a license intended for use on copylefted free documentation.
	www.fsf.org /licensing/licenses (6589 words)

	Wikitravel:Copyleft - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Copyleft means that every single author, editor, illustrator, mapmaker, factchecker and photographer who puts their work into Wikitravel gives you the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct their work however you want to.
		The only restrictions are that if you distribute it, you must give attribution to the creators, and if you derive new work from it, you must give the same rights to users of that work.
		Copyleft means that every single yahoo, nutcase, screwjob, charlatan, shyster, weirdo, freakazoid, mouthbreather, goofball, lamer, cheater and jerk will have the right to read, copy, print, save, download, read aloud, project, modify, email, distribute, sell, photocopy and correct your work however they want to.
	wikitravel.org /en/Wikitravel:Copyleft (764 words)

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