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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>copycenter</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="copybroke.html" title="copybroke"/><link rel="next" href="copyleft.html" title="copyleft"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">copycenter</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="copybroke.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="copyleft.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="copycenter"/><dt xmlns="" id="copycenter"><b>copycenter</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [play on &#8216;copyright&#8217; and &#8216;copyleft&#8217;] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The copyright notice carried by the various flavors of freeware
BSD. According to Kirk McKusick at BSDCon 1999: &#8220;<span class="quote">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 &#8216;copycenter&#8217;, which is &#8216;take it down to
the copy center and make as many copies as you want&#8217;</span>&#8221;.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="copybroke.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="copyleft.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">copybroke </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> copyleft</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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