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Volume 10
Copyleft
What's New 
©Copyleft
Yes,
I said Copyleft. We have all heard of copyrights, the registration
that restricts the use or reproduction of material.
Copyleft is a new movement in use rights promulgated on the
internet. What sets copyleft material apart is that it has been released
under a special kind of license called a "copyleft". That means
you are free to copy, redistribute and rework the material, as long as you
abide by certain terms and conditions. Generally you are required to make
the material freely distributable even after reworking the material, and a
copy of the "copyleft" license must accompany it. It may
also be necessary to include a copy of the original source of the
material. Some people and organizations are copylefting previously
copyrighted material. This means that they are relinquishing some rights
that are provided by their copyrights.
Copyleft is closely tied to the open source movement. The open source movement originated in 1984 when computer scientist Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT and set up the Free Software Foundation. In brief Stallman felt that the patenting and copyrighting of the source programming of software, usually a computer language code, generated poor quality, bug ridden software. And worse, it choked off the free flow of ideas. Stallman fretted that if computer scientists could no longer learn from one another's code, the art of programming would stagnate.
Although open source has been around a long time, copylefting has recently been gaining prominence. For more information on open source check out the GNU General Public License. For more information about Copyleft try this link.
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