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A Czech Republic solution distributed under EUPL-1.2
As reported by Ms Alexandra Molitorisova, Legal and regulatory officer at the CTU, the Czech public administration - the Czech Telecommunication Office (https://www.ctu.cz) has published on GitLab…
NEWSCreated: 24/02/2022
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: 15/10/2021Are 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: 29/04/2021New 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: 19/11/2020A look inside the EC Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023
On October 21st (2020), the European Commission approved and published its Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023 that focuses on sharing and interoperability. Under the theme ‘’Think Open’’, the…
NEWSCreated: 12/11/2020Pi-hole, ad blocking under EUPL
Being spammed with unsolicited ads becomes causes multiple problems: mailboxes are overloaded, network traffic increases, waste of time to delete / unsubscribe from all these unsolicited senders or…
NEWSCreated: 14/05/2020In Member States, Digital Innovation and EUPL sharing fight COVID-19
This hackaton against Covid-19 is an initiative of the European Commission, in close collaboration with the member states. The purpose is a pan-European hackathon to connect civil society, innovators…
NEWSCreated: 27/04/2020German Lawyer Niklas Plutte shares OSS tips
Under the title « Open Source Software Recht: Große FAQ mit vielen Praxistipps” (in German language) the German lawyer Niklas Plutte (Rechtsanwalt) summarises the main questions related to open source…
NEWSCreated: 13/01/2020GSA SATELLITE-NAVIGATION DATA MAY BE A LOT TO DIGEST!
The European Global Navigation Satellite System Agency (GSA) distributes under the EUPL-1.2 licence its NeQuick G algorithm. This complex program is the result of intensive recoding by engineers at…
NEWSCreated: 13/12/2019EUPL provides crucial building block to successful IoT project
The FIESTA-IoT Project, has been working to deliver the Experimentation-as-a-Service (EaaS) paradigm, the action of sharing and reusing data between multiple Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled testbed…
NEWSCreated: 07/03/2019Survey-The Future of the Open Source Observatory (OSOR)
The European Commission is conducting a study to define the new vision and strategy of OSOR. To contribute to this study, we are currently launching an online survey to collect views and opinions from…
NEWSCreated: 13/02/2019