Copyleft vs Copywrong - What's the difference?
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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.
(nonce) The unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.
* 1847 , Freeman Hunt, Hunt's merchants' magazine (page 539)
* 1998 , Network World (volume 15, number 12, 23 March 1998)
* 2005 , Gerard M Stegmaier, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 2005 supplement
As nouns the difference between copyleft and copywrong
is that copyleft is the philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code while copywrong is the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.As a verb copyleft
is to license under a copyleft license.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.
copywrong
English
Noun
- We do it with less compunctious visitings of conscience, on the score of copyright or copywrong , as we are informed by the New York bookseller, that the demand'', since we commenced the publication of our extracts, has been greater than the ''supply ...
- But immediately we run headlong into the issue of copywrong . For instance, take a sample of some artist and mix it with other samples and sounds to create a new work and you will get a composition that will attract entertainment lawyers like a garbage bin gathers flies.
- For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs ," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.
