Welcome.
This is the home page of Copyleft Software AS. We're a small Norway based company, and we're into free software. We use it for most of what we do, and whatever we produce we (eventually) GPL. We also provide hosting, etc. for others who are doing the same.

The company is owned by the people who work here, and the charter forbids dividends and discourages sales of shares to outside interests. It also ensures the copyright of software produced goes to the author, not to the company or to the customer, and it also ensures the software is under the GPL (or in special cases, another free license).

Contact
Get in touch with us through mail, at info@copyleft.no. You can also call us at +47 22 71 67 00, or send snail mail to Copyleft Software AS, Storgata 45, NO-0182 Oslo, Norway.

Our Services
We primarily do programming for the free OSes. This means we mostly do technical stuff for particularly interested customers. But a lot of what we do is also web programming, and this gives us a slightly wider audience.

We also have a few designers on board, we're able to do system administration, and we provide internet services of all kinds.

Incomplete English Pages
This temporary front page is all we have ready for English readers at this point. The items under "stuff" (left) will take you to Norwegian pages. We won't have translations ready for at least six months. Sorry.

Our Projects
Our main projects these days include FIX (an old style telnet BBS), Plowshare (a FreeBSD based office server system), Pult (a GNU/Linux office project), Zepto GNU/Linux (an customized GNU/Linux setup for a particular brand of laptops) and some web appllications called KSYS, Locomotion and Suite16.

In addition, we're working on several projects for other companies, on contract.

Our Latest News:

New offices! (20030312)
Copyleft has moved to a new physical location, at Storgata 45. No services have been affected by this.

New public CVS server! (20030223)
We've moved our public CVS repository. It can still be reached at cvs.copyleft.no, but only over SSH, not with pserver. Instructions are at the cvs.copyleft.no-webpages. If you've previously had a pserver-account, mail cvs-admin@copyleft.no for an account at the new server.

Zepto GNU/Linux! (20030208)
Copyleft has adapted a well know distribution of GNU/Linux to Zepto Computers AS' laptop model Z-Note 2002. Available in stores now!

Switching to FreeBSD! (20010506)
Thursday 20010510, at 12:00 GMT+1 the server bzzzt.fix.no will be taken down for hardware upgrades, and will have OpenBSD replaced with FreeBSD as OS.

Webmail for Copyleft users! (20010227)
People who have e-mail accounts at Copyleft (and those with accounts on the FIX server bzzzt.fix.no) can now read their e-mail on the web. This includes people with shell logins who are barred from using POP.