http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ copyleft <p><strong>copyleft</strong> is a style of licensing that turns the idea of copyright on its head.</p> <p>The terms of a copyleft license allow users of the source code to redistribute and modify the code, however any changes they attach to the code must be distributed under the same licensing terms as the copyleft code.</p> <p>The most famous copyleft license is the <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/License:GPL"><span class="caps">GPL</span></a>, and the Creative Commons Share-Alike license variants are also popular.</p> copyleft is a style of licensing that turns the idea of copyright on its head. The terms of a copyleft license allow users of the source code to redistribute and modify the code, however any changes they attach to the code must be distributed under the same licensing terms as the copyleft code. The most famous copyleft license is the GPL, and the Creative Commons Share-Alike license variants are also popular. http://swik.net/copyleft Software licensing copyleft Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:53:30 -0800 Thu, 18 May 2006 18:35:20 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/ccoub Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:10:05 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/cckn4 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:04:57 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Court+says+copyrights+apply+even+for+free+software+-+Yahoo%21+News/ccjww Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:09:29 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/ccjd9 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:08:51 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/cch8d Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:09:28 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/cch8a Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:09:27 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/cch76 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:09:26 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/cchvh Holy shit, we&#039;ve got at least one sane court left. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:04:57 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/ccf8h or free software because it&#039;s difficult to compute the monetary value of software that is given away free of charge. As a result, many violations of copyleft licenses could have been punished with small fines that would amount to little more than a slap on the wrist. The decision outraged the free software community and the broader free culture movement. In December, a broad coalition of organizations that rely on copyleft licenses, including Creative Commons, the Software Freedom Law Center, and the Wikimedia Foundation, filed an amicus brief urging that the ruling be overturned. The brief, authored by lawyers at Stanford&#039;s Center for Internet and Society, pointed out that there are now hundreds of millions of works released under licenses similar to the Artistic License and suggested that the district court had failed to appreciate the potential conseque Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:04:50 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Court%3A+violating+copyleft+%3D+copyright+infringement/ccf3j Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:04:53 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/Maintaining+Permissive-Licensed+Files+in+a+GPL-Licensed+Project%3A+Guidelines+for+Developers+-+Software+Freedom+Law+Center/ccf3h Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:04:53 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Piet+Zwart+Institute+-+A+Guide+To+Open+Content+Licences/ccd3i Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:05:03 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Licenses+-+Definition+of+Free+Cultural+Works/cb0bn Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:08:42 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Slashdot+%7C+Microsoft+Blesses+LGPL%2C+Joins+Apache+Foundation/cbjgo OMFG!.... 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This is possible thanks to wxPython. Easypodcast does this in 3 easy steps: Step 1: Automatic Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:47:11 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/The+GNU+General+Public+License+-+GNU+Project+-+Free+Software+Foundation+%28FSF%29/cau3z Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:45:53 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/The+GNU+General+Public+License+-+GNU+Project+-+Free+Software+Foundation+%28FSF%29/cau22 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:45:14 -0700 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/Magnatune%3A+license+music+and+MP3+download/caqip Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:51:57 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Open+Architecture+Network+%7C+Improving+living+standards+through+collaborative+design./cacce Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:50:06 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/GNU+General+Public+License+-+Wikipedia%2C+the+free+encyclopedia/b9wl0 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:48:05 -0700 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/ccMixter+-+Welcome+to+ccMixter/b9qmo Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:49:14 -0700 http://swik.net/License:GPL/del.icio.us+tag%2Fgpl/The+GNU+General+Public+License+-+GNU+Project+-+Free+Software+Foundation+%28FSF%29/b9n00 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:50:30 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Copyright%2C+Copyleft+%26+the+Creative+Anti-Commons/b9gl0 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:50:03 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/a+Conquista+Silenciosa+del+Ciberespacio%3A+Creative+Commons+y+el+dise%C3%B1o+de+entornos+digitales+como+nuevo+arte+regulativo+en+Internet/b8vyu VERCELLI, ARIEL Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:50:07 -0700