[Gllug] GPL

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:16:07PM +0100, Weston, Toby (ELS) wrote:
> So how about copyleft, where does that fit in? Is it as simple as saying
> "you can distribute this as long as you keep this notice" or is it the same
> thing os the GPL, LGPL? 

"Copyleft" is just a cutesy name for software which is copyrighted and
distributed under the GPL (or related) license.

Nothing in law specifically talks about or uses the term "copyleft".

"Copyleft" software is very much copyrighted.

As ever, Wikipedia is your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

Rich.

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