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The concrete effect of strong vs. weak copyleft has yet to be tested in court. [26] Free-software licenses that use "weak" copyleft include the GNU Lesser General Public License and the Mozilla Public License. The GNU General Public License is an example of a license implementing strong copyleft.
The strength of the copyleft governing a work is an expression of the extent that the copyleft provisions can be efficiently imposed on all kinds of derived works. "Weak copyleft" refers to licenses where not all derived works inherit the copyleft license; whether a derived work inherits or not often depends on the manner in which it was derived.
Copyleft software licenses (24 P) Creative Commons (5 C, 32 P, 1 F) M. Music licensing (1 C, 17 P) O. ... The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement; C.
Copyleft licenses (also known as "share-alike"), [46] require source code to be distributed with software and require the source code be made available under a similar license. [48] [49] Copyleft represents the farthest that reuse can be restricted while still being considered free software. [50]
Pages in category "Copyleft software licenses" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Commercial distributors of Linux distributions (like Red Hat and Mandriva) might have had some ups and downs [citation needed] in finding a successful construction (or business model) for setting up such businesses, but in time it was shown to be possible [citation needed] to base a business on a commercial service surrounding a copylefted work.
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.
SA (share-alike): restriction on freedoms 2 or 3, the copy must distributed under a license identical to the license that governs the original work (see copyleft). ND (Non-derivative): exclusion of freedom 3. NC (Non-commercial): partial exclusion of freedoms 2 and 3 of commercial purposes. Other: other less usual restrictions on "open licenses".