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Copyleft

While cleaning out my emails, I came across an article I had saved about the 'copyleft' symbol and decided that this was a great idea for us creative types. We all know about the copyright symbol and what it means, but what about when you want to encourage others to use your creation and it is more than ok to use it, that's when you can use the copyleft symbol to inform others that you encourage them using your stuff. The “reversed c in a full circle” is the copyleft symbol. It is the copyright symbol mirrored. Unlike the copyright symbol, it has no legal meaning. Here is the summary from Wikpedia : Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions. Copyleft is a form of licensing and may be used to modify copyrights for works such as computer software, documents, music, and ...