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For free/open-source software the alternative to copyleft is so called **[permissive](permissive.md)** licensing which (same as with copyleft) grants all the necessary freedom rights, but, unlike copyleft, does NOT require further modified versions to grant these rights as well. This allows free software being forked and developed into [proprietary](proprietary.md) software and is what copyleft proponents criticize. However, both copyleft and permissive licensing are free as in freedom.
In the [FOSS](foss.md) world there is a huge battle between the copyleft camp and permissive camp (our [LRS](lrs.md) advocates permissive licenses with a preference for 100% [public domain](public_domain.md)). These debates go beyond mere technology and law for the basic disagreement lies in whether freedom should be forced and if forced freedom really is freedom, thereby getting into questions of politics, ideologies, philosophy, morality and [ethics](ethics.md).
In the [FOSS](foss.md) world there is a huge **battle between the copyleft camp and permissive camp** (our [LRS](lrs.md) advocates permissive licenses with a preference for 100% [public domain](public_domain.md)). These debates go beyond mere technology and law for the basic disagreement lies in whether freedom should be forced and if forced freedom really is freedom, thereby getting into questions of politics, ideologies, philosophy, morality and [ethics](ethics.md). Some groups opposing copyleft include [copyfree](copyfree.md), [GNG](gng.md) and [LRS](lrs.md).
## Issues With Copyleft
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- **Copyleft prevents not only inclusion in proprietary software but also in permissive FREE software.** I.e. as a consequence of denying code to corporations collateral damage is done by also denying code to ethical free software that wishes to be distributed without copyleft conditions. Similarly to how proprietary software forces free software programmers to reinvent wheels by rewriting software as free, copyleft forces permissive free software programmers to reinvent wheels and rewrite copylefted code as permissive. In this way copyleft [fights](fight_culture.md) not only proprietary software, but also other kinds of free software.
- **There are currently no nice copyleft licenses** -- this of course isn't argument against copyleft itself but it's a practical argument nevertheless. Copyleft nowadays basically means GPL and GPL has a shitton of burdening stuff like requiring credit etc. If you want pure copyleft without anything on top, good luck looking for a license (keep in mind that making your own license or using some obscure, legally untested license is mostly a bad idea).
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## See Also
- [permissive](permissive.md)
- [copyfree](copyfree.md)
- [copyright](copyright.md)