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copycenter
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n. [play on copyright and copyleft ] 1. The copyright notice carried by the
various flavors of freeware BSD. According to Kirk McKusick at BSDCon 1999:
The way it was characterized politically, you had copyright, which is what
the big companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is free
software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then Berkeley had
what we called copycenter , which is take it down to the copy center and
make as many copies as you want.