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copylefts

copylefts is the plural of copyleft.

copylefts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of copyleft.

Meaning of copyleft

Noun

copyleft (usually uncountable, plural copylefts)

  1. (usually) The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
    • They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.
  2. (usually) A software license that follows this philosophy.
    • I have placed my program under copyleft.

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Questions about copylefts

What is copylefts the plural of?
Copylefts is the plural of copyleft.

Words near copylefts in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copylefts (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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