What does CL stand for?

Copyleft (license)

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Information technology (IT) and computers
Organizations, NGOs, schools, universities, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

For supporters, Soto is a something of a hero of the new online cultural freedom movement which promotes copyleft, as opposed to copyright.

Music industry battles Spanish computer buff

But instead of backing individual rights-holders, copyleft installs a regime of common ownership.

The hacker movement as a continuation of labour struggle

Copyleft generally requires that if open source software is incorporated into proprietary source code, the entire source code (open source + proprietary) must be made available to others on the same terms as the existing public license.

The risks of using open source software: using it in proprietary ...

In fact, the Copyleft approach allows the author to retain her copyrights, and use those rights to ensure that subsequent recipients use her work in the way that she wants.

Computer software derivative works: the calm before the storm

Goss, Note, Codifying a Commons: Copyright, Copyleft, and the Creative Commons Project, 82 CHI.

Thirty-ninth selected bibliography on computers, technology, and the ...

Also, Microsoft does not want code that's distributed under copyleft licenses, such as GPL, creeping in.

United Kingdom: Microsoft: keep your sticky mitts off our language ...

Some influential members of the copyleft community make the case that everyday, rote copying is just as important to creativity as is transformative copying.

The access to knowledge mobilization and the new politics of ...

Copyleft is a way to make program free software and require those who distribute improved versions of it to make them free also.

Introduction and Scope of Public Domain Content