Questions tagged [copyleft]

For questions about the copyleft concept (also known as Share-Alike), a concept that promotes or enforces the use of the same or compatible license for derived works.

Copyleft is a licensing principle where the license stipulates that re-distribution of the work or distribution of derivative or combined works is permitted, on the condition that it is done under the same license.

This ensures the work always stays free and/or open.

Well-known examples of such licenses are the gnu family of licenses: the GPL, LGPL and AGPL, the Mozilla public license (MPL), and the Creative Commons licenses with a Share Alike clause, for example CC BY-SA.

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Does the licence of the database used have an influence on the final licence of the product?

Assume a standard server-side Web application. Database, backend, frontend. It's basic knowledge that one should check the licences of the libraries used before deciding on the license for the final product. For example, if there is a GPL library…
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Are there advocates for open source, copyleft biology?

I know this might seem off-topic, but you can think of a living organism as a software, with its DNA/genome being the code. In that sense, there is a project aimed at discovering the source code of every software available on earth. I wonder if…
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