copycenter n.
[play on `copyright' and `copyleft'] 1. The
copyright notice carried by the various flavors of freeware BSD.
According to Kirk McKusick at BSDCon 1999: "The way it was
characterized politically, you had copyright, which is what the big
companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is
free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then
Berkeley had what we called "copycenter", which is "take it down
to the copy center and make as many copies as you want".
[play on `copyright' and `copyleft'] 1. The
copyright notice carried by the various flavors of freeware BSD.
According to Kirk McKusick at BSDCon 1999: "The way it was
characterized politically, you had copyright, which is what the big
companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is
free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then
Berkeley had what we called "copycenter", which is "take it down
to the copy center and make as many copies as you want".
Related:
- copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n.
[play on `copyright'] 1.
The copyright notice (`General Public License')... - copyleft: /kop'ee-left/ [play on `copyright'] n. 1.
The copyright notice (`General Public License')... - General Public Virus: n. Pejorative name for some versions of the
{GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL),
which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating... - Brief History Of Linux (#22)
RMS had a horrible, terrible dream set in 2020 in which all of society was
held captive by copyright law.
In particular, everyone's brain waves were monitored... - General Public Virus n.
Pejorative name for some
versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public
License (GPL),
which requires that any tools or apps incorporating... - Admit it--
you expected to see a copyright notice here... - saga n.
[WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N
random broken people.
Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told... - A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people... - dongle /dong'gl/ n.
1. A security or copy protection device for proprietary software consisting of a
serialized EPROM and some drivers in a D-25 connector shell,
which must be connected to an I/O port of the computer...
