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Are there other Free/OSS licences? What about the EUPL?

Submitted by Former User on July 29, 2011

F/OSS licences are (too) numerous. Facing this proliferation, the Open-Source Initiative (OSI) is the main organisation maintaining a list of "approved licenses". The European Union Public Licence (EUPL) was created by the European Commission to comply with the European legal context: it is currently the sole licence which has official value in 22 linguistic versions. The EUPL was approved by OSI. The EUPL reduces the impact of license proliferation by providing a compatibility list, which includes the GPL.

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