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Copyleft

Updated: 10/02/2017 by Computer Hope
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A Copyright that preserves rights rather than removing them. Copyleft is a guiding principle of the GPL (General Public License) and the FSF (Free Software Foundation). It states that others may copy, modify, and distribute an author's work, as long as the same rights are preserved on the modified work.

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