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## What is Copyleft?
 

	
 
Copyleft is a strategy of utilizing copyright law to pursue the policy goal
 
of fostering, encouraging the equal and inalienable right to copy, share,
 
of fostering and encouraging the equal and inalienable right to copy, share,
 
modify and improve creative works of authorship.  Copyleft (as a general
 
term) describes any method that utilizes the copyright system to achieve the
 
aforementioned goal.  Copyleft as a concept is usually implemented in the
 
details of a specific copyright license, such as the GNU
 
[General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) and the
 
[Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).