diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index 7f9975e79148a9f379e94f17bb6c63d311dec6d7..b27862715c88179b178f33cbb30a967adaec3759 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -480,8 +480,19 @@ developers of the kernel named Linux, have chosen to follow this paradigm. \label{copyleft-definition} -% FIXME-URGENT: integrate +Copyleft is a strategy of utilizing copyright law to pursue the policy goal +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 +\hyperref[GPLv3-full-text]{GNU General Public License (GPL)} and the Creative +Commons Attribution Share Alike License (the latter of which is the license +of this work itself). Copyright holders of creative work can unilaterally +implement these licenses for their own works to build communities that +collaboratively share and improve those copylefted creative works. +% FIXME-URGENT: integrate Copyleft, which uses functional parts of copyright law to achieve an unusual result (legal protection for free sharing) forms the core legal principle of these