What is the difference between copyleft and copyright?
copyleft | copyright |
The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
A software license that follows this philosophy.
To license under a copyleft license.
(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
(countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
To place under a copyright.
To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
As nouns the difference between copyleft and copyright
is that copyleft is the philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code while copyright is the right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.As verbs the difference between copyleft and copyright
is that copyleft is to license under a copyleft license while copyright is to place under a copyright.copyleft
English
(wikipedia copyleft)Noun
(en-noun)- ''They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.
- I have placed my program under copyleft .
- The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.
Derived terms
* (l)Verb
- Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.
copyright
English
(wikipedia copyright)Noun
(en-noun)- Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks.
- The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract.
