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-'''Copycenter''' is a term used to explain the nature of the [[modified BSD license]], the [[free software license]] used for most of the [[free software]] included in various free distributions of the [[BSD]] [[operating system]]. The term was presented by [[Kirk McKusick]], a [[computer scientist]] famous for his work on BSD, during one of his speeches at [[BSDCon]] 1999.  It is a [[word play]] on [[copyright]], [[copyleft]] and [[copy center]].
-{{CquoteTxt|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 Software Distribution|Berkeley]] had what we called ‘copycenter’, which is ‘take it down to the copy center and make as many copies as you want.’|[[Kirk McKusick]]|[[BSDCon]] 1999}}
-== See also ==
-{{wiktionary}}
-*[[BSD licenses|BSD license]]
-*[[Berkeley Software Distribution]]
-*[[Glossary of legal terms in technology]]
-*[[Permissive free software licences]]
-== References ==
-*{{Cite web | year = 2006 | author = The Jargon File contributors | url = http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/copycenter.html | title = copycenter | work = The Jargon File | publisher = Eric S. Raymond | accessmonthday = June 14 | accessyear = 2006}}
-[[Category:BSD]]
-[[Category:Free software culture and documents]]