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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
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
New 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
A 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: 12/11/2020
Pi-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: 14/05/2020
In 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: 27/04/2020
German 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: 13/01/2020
GSA 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: 13/12/2019