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### Copyleft
Some licenses don't just *permit* you to share your improvements, but *require*
-you to share your improvements. Such licenses are **copyleft** licenses, and if
-you make changes to them you are required to share those changes with others
-under the same free-software terms when sharing the software or software derived
-from the original. Copyleft is a tool to protect free software from being
-incorporated into non-free works.
+that, if you share the software or software derived from or incorporating parts
+of the original, you can only do so by using the same license for your
+improvements. This is a **copyleft** license: a tool to protect free software
+from being incorporated into non-free works.
Here's an example from the [Mozilla Public License 2.0]: