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(almost always associated with the free software movement, though sometimes "nature's copyleft" in natural genomes gets discussed in meetings)
 
 
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#REDIRECT [[free software]]
[[File:Copyleft.svg|thumb|right|200px|Copyleft symbol used under copyleft. Click on [[:File:Copyleft.svg|file description]] for attribution page that is mirrored from the [[Wikimedia Commons]]]]
 
'''Copyleft''' is a [[license|licensing]] style where much of that which is or can be protected under [[copyright]] is given to the users, hence the term in Finnish is fi."käyttäjänoikeus" == en."user's right".
It was first popular in [[free software]] but has since expanded to include various other types of works of art or utility, most known of which is of course the [[Wikipedia]].
 
Most known '''GNU''' copyleft licenses are [[GPL]] for code and [[GFDL]] for other written works
 
Another famous family of copyleft licenses is the ''' [[Creative Commons]]'''
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