Copyleft Definition
kŏpē-lĕft
noun
A form of licensing that encourages the distribution of software at no charge for noncommercial uses.
American Heritage
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.
Wiktionary
verb
To license under a copyleft license.
Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.
Wiktionary
Origin of Copyleft
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Pun on copyright.
From Wiktionary
After copyright
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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