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The other major category of licenses are ["copyleft" licenses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft).
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These are licenses that require that anyone that uses your work redistributes it with the same (or greater) rights to modify, copy, share, and redistribute it.
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In other words, copyleft licenses prohibit someone taking your work, making a proprietary version of it, and redistributing it without providing the source code so others can do the same.
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Copyleft licenses are "sticky," in that they are designed to ensure that more free software is created.
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Copyleft licenses are "sticky" in that they are designed to ensure that more free software is created.
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The difference between copyleft vs. permissive licenses is an important cultural divide in free and open source software (eg. see {footcite}`hunterReclaimingComputingCommons2016`, {footcite}`gnuprojectWhatFreeSoftware2019`, {footcite}`gnuprojectWhatCopyleft2022`),
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that you should be aware of when choosing your license - the lineage of copyleft represents the "free" part of "free and open source software."

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