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# Copyleft
Copyleft (also share-alike) is a concept of allowing sharing and modifications of intellectual works (such as pictures, music or computer programs) on the legal condition that others will share it under the same terms (i.e. that they will also allow the work's further free sharing and modification etc.); it was created by the critics of [copyright](copyright.md) as a "more sane" take on sharing. Copyleft is widely utilized by some proponents of [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md) and [culture](free_culture.md) to legally ensure this software/art and its modifications will always remain free, however other camps of freedom proponents argue that copyleft is still too restrictive and share their works under [even more relaxed](premissive.md) legal conditions. Copyleft kind of [hacks](hacking.md) [copyright](copyright.md) to de-facto remove copyright (the monopoly it creates) by its own power.
Copyleft (also share-alike) is a concept of allowing sharing and modifications of intellectual works (such as pictures, music or computer programs) on the legal condition that others will share it under the same terms (i.e. that they will also allow the work's further free sharing and modification etc.); it was created by the critics of [copyright](copyright.md) as a "more sane" take on sharing. The symbol of copyleft is mirrored copyright symbol, i.e. horizontally flipped C in circle (C looking "to the left"). Copyleft is widely utilized by some proponents of [free (as in freedom) software](free_software.md) and [culture](free_culture.md) to legally ensure this software/art and its modifications will always remain free, however other camps of freedom proponents argue that copyleft is still too restrictive and share their works under [even more relaxed](premissive.md) legal conditions. Copyleft kind of [hacks](hacking.md) [copyright](copyright.md) to de-facto remove copyright (the monopoly it creates) by its own power.
Copyleft has been by its mechanisms likened to a virus because once it is applied to certain software, it "infects" it and will force its conditions on any [descendants](fork.md) of that software, i.e. it will spread itself (in this case the word virus does not bear a negative connotation, at least to some, they see it as a "good virus").