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Joinup Licensing Assistant
As from June 2019, Joinup proposes a new solution: the JLA, a unique tool allowing everyone to compare and select open licences based on their content. The JLA is linked to SPDX (for Software Package…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/11/2018
ISA Contributor Agreement
When setting up a project that will be distributed to third parties, it is wise to select from scratch the convenient outbound licence (for example the EUPL licence, or the Apache, or the BSD-3 etc.)…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/12/2017
EUPL - the free/open source software licence of the European Union
Created in 2007, OSI approved in 2009 and updated in 2017 (v1.2), the EUPL is a legal interoperability solution that is proposed for use by software licensors across the EU (and abroad, as the case…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/12/2017
The Swedish Agency for Digital Government reports their licensing policies
Under the title “Rekommendation om öppna licenser och immaterialrätt” (Recommendation on open licenses and intellectual property rights) the Swedish policy details the licensing options regarding the…
NEWSCreated: 21/07/2022
EUPL - strong copyleft license outside EU
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…
NEWSCreated: 29/06/2022
The German Federal Development Portal
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…
NEWSCreated: 01/06/2022
The EUPL is a "Legal Licence" in France
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…
NEWSCreated: 03/12/2021
Publication Office releases edition 2021 of the EUPL Guidelines
On 30 September, the Publication Office of the European Union has released the 2021 edition of the EUPL Guidelines Compared to the previous version, the new brochure is completely rewritten (shorter)…
NEWSCreated: 15/10/2021
Article from Krzysztof Żok, Faculty of Law - University of Poznań
Krzysztof Żok, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), publishes in the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology…
NEWSCreated: 15/10/2021
Important Project of European Interest (IPCEI)
Following a call for expressions of interest launched in April, the Ministry of the Economy of the Grand Duchy launched on 8 June 2021 a call for projects for economic operators wishing to participate…
NEWSCreated: 10/06/2021
UAM Architecture Method licensed under the EUPL
UAM © 2018 by David W. Enstrom Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is another example of using the EUPL license for licensing more than software, but methodology. The Unified Architecture Method (UAM) defines a…
NEWSCreated: 25/05/2021
Are APIs copyrighted ?
On 5 April 2021, the US Supreme Court ruled a new milestone in a 10 years case opposing Oracle and Google. Google, which had taken over Android in 2005 with the ambition to develop a smartphone system…
NEWSCreated: 29/04/2021