Text of the European Union Public Licence (EUPL). Version 1.2, published in Official Journal of 19 May 2017 and available in 23 official languages of the European Union (SPDX identifier EUPL-1.2)...
European PoliciesLegal+4 topics
Last update: 06/04/2024
Ukraine publishes DIIA under EUPL
After a long announcement period, the Ukrainian government makes it's e-governance application Diia open-sourced under the EUPL-1.2 license. Diia is an alternative solution to the BankID and electronic government services. 42 repositories are available for code review and contribution.Diia proposes a mobile application providing access to the most important digital documents and government services, which Ukrainian citizens may now keep in their pocket.The most obvious benefit is the convenience of such a platform. Citizens can have many documents on their smartphones at once, without concern…
Demography and populationeGovernment+4 topics
Last update: 02/02/2024
Open source user-friendly data protection tool
Announced on January 29, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) unveiled a website auditing tool as part of the EDPB Support Pool of Experts (SPE) initiative. This tool, available for legal and technical auditors at data protection authorities (DPAs) and controllers and processors, assesses website compliance with legal standards. Operating as Free and Open Source Software under the EUPL 1.2 License, the tool’s source code is downloadable from code.europa.eu.Addressing the need for accessibility, the EDPB designed this tool to simplify enforcement for national DPAs and compliance…
European PoliciesICTOpen Source Software
Last update: 31/05/2023
French Education Ministry licenses under EUPL
Based in Grenoble (France) the development team of the French “Ministère de l’Education Nationale” has implemented the French State Design System on the Angular development platform. The (so romantic) software name is “NgxDsfr” Licensed under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL-1.2) the software should help French Administrations (the targeted audience) to speed up application design and benefit from all interfaces to the DSFR (Système de Design de l'État Français) in the framework of Angular. What is Angular? It is a development platform, built using the TypeScript (JavaScript) language…
Digital-ready policymakingICT+3 topics
Last update: 09/03/2023
The EUPL in the Interoperable Europe Act
The adoption of the Interoperable Europe Act (proposed on 18/11/2022) would constitute a major progression towards the – non binding – implementation of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) formulating the EU interoperability strategic policy since 2010. It will reinforce the use of the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) as our common legal interoperability licensing tool. After assessment and based on consensus, the proposal of a directly applicable Regulation was considered as the most appropriate legal instrument for promoting public sector cross-border interoperability. As…
European PolicieseGovernment+3 topics
Last update: 09/02/2023
Digital Europe in Greece
Through GRNET, the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology Company, the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance launches one of the most ambitious and advanced Digital Europe projects: DigiGOV-innoHUB. The aim is to develop an ecosystem of digital transformation actors by promoting innovation in Public Administration through the National Portal for Public Services. All pilot projects will be implemented using open standards, while their source code and documentation available under the European Union Public License (EUPL) and published on the European Commission’s Joinup platform…
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+4 topics
Last update: 06/02/2023
A security contribution from the German BSI
The German BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) licenses its TaSK Framework tool under the EUPL-1.2 European licence. What is this TaSK Framework tool? It is a configurable test tool for performing TLS conformity to the BSI specifications. So…, and what is TLS? TSL means Transport Layer Security. It is the protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. TSL is widely used in applications such as email, instant messaging, voice over IP, and the most important for payment security: HTTPS. The TLS protocol aims primarily to provide security…
eIdentity and eSignatureICT security+3 topics
Last update: 18/04/2023
EU CAPTCHA under EUPL-1.2
EU CAPTCHA is a test intended to distinguish human from machine input. It prevents the use of bots/machines (e.g. for automated account creation) in the framework of services provided by EU Institutions. Distributed under the EUPL-1.2 licence, EU CAPTCHA is available from the EC Gitlab as an open source API and can therefore be used by everyone (public or private entities) for securing web services through a user friendly and multilingual solution. The API supports three types of CAPTCHA: Alphanumeric CAPTCHA with audio transcription; Image rotation CAPTCHA. Sliding CAPTCHA. Why EU CAPTCHA…
eIdentity and eSignatureICT security+3 topics
Last update: 31/08/2022
JRC and FAO experts licensing assessment
Under the title TACKLING THE CHALLENGES OF SOFTWARE PROVISION, Peter Vogt (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy, and Pierrick Rambaud (United Nations FAO, Rome, Italy) explore the full cycle of software provision and detail how choosing the appropriate license for a given software project requires a good deal of thought and rationale to ensure all legal aspects are addressed in an adequate way, and covered also for future software developments. In their paper dated 22–28 August 2022, Florence, Italy, the authors focuses on the benefits, for individuals and…
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+2 topics
Last update: 29/06/2022
India-US body applies EUPL
Open Weaver is a private body led by experts with global technology and multi-industry experience and backed by private investors. It has offices in the US and India, and not in the European Union so far. This make absolutely no obstacle for adopting the EUPL for licensing components of its flagship product KANDI (pronounced kan·dee), which is a platform that helps developers pick the right library, package, code samples, APIs, and cloud functions, by analysing over 430 million knowledge items. In particular, the Virtual-Learning-Lab (C# library) is an open-source virtual reality game designed…
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+2 topics
Last update: 01/06/2022
EUPL in Germany
The German Federal IT Cooperation (FITKO) develops the Federal Development Portal as a part of the IT Planning Council project “FIT-Connect the Federal”. This portal (source code licensed under the EUPL) is the central place for technical documentation, development resources and implementation examples on standards and interfaces of the IT infrastructure of the German Federal State and of the 16 federated Länderns. The Portal is also a central contact point for software developers. Developers play a central role in the implementation of digital applications for the administration. They must be…
Open Source SoftwareStandardisation+7 topics
Last update: 13/02/2024
EUPL for French Administrations
It may look strange and even quite extraordinary, but until today (December 3, 2021) the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) was not yet considered as a “Legal Licence” for use by administrations in France. This omission is now repaired by a Décret n° 2021-1559 of 1st December 2021 adding the EUPL as a "Legal licence" in the Code of Relationship between the Public and the Administrations (CRPA). Before this Décret, French public administrations wanting to make use of the EUPL had to justify it case by case in a long administrative process. Since the EUPL is a reciprocal licence stating that…