Copycenter

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  copycenter 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".