copyfree

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adjective

Having a very permissive copyright license, or (strictly) one which follows the Copyfree Standard.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectivecopyfree (comparative more copyfree, superlative most copyfree)

comparative more copyfree · superlative most copyfree

  1. Having a very permissive copyright license, or (strictly) one which follows the Copyfree Standard.

    Among the best-known permissive licenses are the copyfree licenses.

    2016, Giuseppe Di Cataldo, Stack Frames, Apress, →ISBN, page 14
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    This book is copyfree for personal use. Any other usage (i.e.: commercial, education etc.) must be authorized by the Author.

    2006, Alessia Ambrosini, A Journey Back in Time, Monti & Ambrosini, →ISBN, page 3

    The Free Universal Construction Kit. Copyfree and in the Public Domain; 2007-2012 by F.A.T..

    2015 March 23, Jonathon Keats, “MoMA Envisions A Future In Which Designers Become Political Philosophers”, in Forbes, Image caption, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021

    With the developers of Unix, Windows, C, and C++ all behind the copy-free style, I am bewildered that there are supporters for this alternative aesthetic, which has a high cost: that of copying the structure or buffer, not once, but several times as it passes up the layers of a library.

    2016, Kurt Guntheroth, Optimized C++, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN

    The performance of the distributed matrix transpose required in the pseudo-spectral convolutions has been improved by adopting a copyfree algorithm which relies on MPI derived datatypes.

    2017, High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '16, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 393

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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