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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 Open Metadata Licence
Licensing copyrighted material is not only about software or closely related documentation: it may cover other assets, like specifications, data (i.e. resulting from statistics or from any big file…
SOLUTIONCreated: 06/12/2017
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
Watching the earth system (our planet)
Under the title “Data Analysis and Exploration with Visual Approaches” nine authors* delivered on 15 July 2022 a Springer Link study of the Earth system and its related processes, in order to perform…
NEWSCreated: 23/07/2022
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
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: 15/10/2021
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