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copylefting

copylefting is the present participle and gerund of copyleft.

Meaning of copyleft

Verb

copyleft (third-person singular simple present copylefts, present participle copylefting, simple past and past participle copylefted)

  1. (transitive) To license under a copyleft license.
    • Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.

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Questions about copylefting

What is copylefting the present participle and gerund of?
Copylefting is the present participle and gerund of copyleft.

Words near copylefting in the dictionary

  1. copyists
  2. copyleft
  3. copyleft symbol
  4. copyleft symbols
  5. copylefted
  6. copylefting
  7. copyleftist
  8. copyleftists
  9. copylefts
  10. copyline
  11. copylines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copylefting (page history and authors); copyleft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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