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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 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: 03/12/2021Publication 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: 15/10/2021Article 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: 15/10/2021Important 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: 10/06/2021UAM 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: 25/05/2021Are 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: 29/04/2021Návody.Digital proposes a Global Portal for the Slovak Administration
Licensed on GitHub under the EUPL-1.2 the portal Návody.Digital covers most life situations in Slovakia: health (and COVID-19), family, construction, taxation, employment, residence, wedding, mobility…
NEWSCreated: 07/04/2021The JRC DISPA-SET model
Open energy system models are open source. They are used to explore future energy systems and are often applied to questions involving energy and climate policy. The models themselves vary widely in…
NEWSCreated: 26/03/2021What makes the EUPL unique?
Concepts like "Open Source", "Reciprocal or permissive licence", Compatibility and Interoperability still need to be explained. Each notion has legal impact and understanding what makes a licence…
NEWSCreated: 22/12/2020New JOINUP Compatibility Checker
Presentation of the Compatibility Checker at the Joinup Users’ Group on 19/11/2020 One year ago JOINUP (the EC sharing web site) presented the JLA – Joinup Licensing Assistant https://joinup.ec.europa…
NEWSCreated: 19/11/2020