Comparison With Free Software Licenses
A free software license grants users of that software the rights to modify and redistribute the creative works and software, both of which are forbidden by the defaults of copyright, and generally not granted with proprietary software. These licenses typically include a disclaimer of warranty. Copyleft also include a key addition provision, that must be accepted in order to copy or modify the software, that requires that user to provide source code for the work, and to distribute his or her modifications under the same license.
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