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 ===== copyleft ===== ===== copyleft =====
  
-**copyleft:** /kop'ee-left/ [play on `copyright'] n. 1. The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also General Public Virus). 2. By extension, any copyright notice intended to achieve similar aims. +<blockquote>Copyleft is a general method for making a program (or other work) free (in the sense of freedom, not “zero price”), and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.<cite>The GNU Project, [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.html|What is Copyleft?]]</cite></blockquote> 
-http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/copyleft.html+
  
  
-"All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. ... All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you." -- William S. Burroughs, The Job +<blockquote>All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. [...] All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you.<cite>William S. Burroughs, The Job</cite></blockquote> 
  
 ==== links ==== ==== links ====
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-===== licences (from  http://fsf.org  + others) =====+==== GPL-Compatible, Free Software Licenses ====
  
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-==== (GPL -Compatible, Free Software Licenses ==== 
 The GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html  The GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html 
 This is a free software license, and a copyleft license. We recommend it for most software packages. This is a free software license, and a copyleft license. We recommend it for most software packages.
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 mindguard public license for memetic protection http://zapatopi.net/mgpl.html mindguard public license for memetic protection http://zapatopi.net/mgpl.html
  
-==== opensource + free software ====+==== Open Source + free software ==== 
   * Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/index.htm    * Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/index.htm 
   * [[Free Software]]  and [[Open Source]]    * [[Free Software]]  and [[Open Source]] 

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